Sentences with phrase «of ancestral spirits»

Dreaming tracks crisscross Australia tracing the journeys of ancestral spirits as they created the land, animals and lores.

Traditional practices and worshipping of ancestral spirits were seen as evil by Christian religions.

For example, they construed natural calamities as an expression of wrath of their ancestral spirits if they changed religion.

Not exact matches

Many ancestral «religions» (a relatively new contrived word) have not gods, just spirits of dead ancestors or places or things.

C. For the third group of 500 sick people, Australian Aboriginals performed traditional ceremonies to their ancestral spirits that their condition would improve.

The tribe considers Spirit Cave to be part of its ancestral homeland and wanted the remains and artefacts.

The team considered two classes of religion: MHGs and a broader belief in systems of supernatural punishment (or «BSP») for social transgressions, such as those enacted through ancestral spirits or inanimate forces such as karma.

Traditional beliefs and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) rooted within an ancestral spirit - world however continue to influence the day - to - day lives especially of rural communities.

The shamans used dried sage plants on their fires as a ritual of calling upon ancestral spirits.

Together with celebrity hairstylist Vernon François, Nyong» o brought the ancestral spirit of African beauty to the red carpet with a new spin on a traditional Rwandan hairstyle that had all the viewers at home buzzing.

This Buddhist - Confucian custom has evolved into a family reunion holiday during which people return to ancestral family places and visit and clean their ancestors» graves, and when the spirits of ancestors are supposed to revisit the household altars.

When T'Challa consumes the Heart - Shaped Herb — the ingestion of which transports one's consciousness to the spirit world — he is met with a magnificent ancestral realm: wide - open plains, spanning infinitely in all directions like the promise of possibility.

His innocent act of thievery transforms Miguel into a sort of living ghost, capable of interacting with the ancestral spirits that flood into his hometown each Day of the Dead — all styled like calacas, the holiday's trademark fancily dressed skeletons.

There are so many great Black Panther moments, but if I have to choose just one, I'm going with T'Challa's first trip to the ancestral spirit plane, where he talks to his father about the responsibilities of becoming king that weigh on him.

Our urge for spirited driving was kept in check, though, as the expressway jammed up with people going to their ancestral homes to observe seongmyo, the tradition of tidying up the graves of departed loved ones before Chuseok, the early October harvest festival.

The fact that older dogs and wolves were selected could mean they represented ancestral spirits of shamans, he says.

This temple is one of the most important temple in Bali, because it is closely connected with ancestral spirits purification ceremonies or better known as Mount Nyegara ceremony.

The legendary Pu`u Keka`a lava rock formation, on Ka'anapali Beach, is a place where Hawaiians believe the souls of the dead leap from the earth into their ancestral spirit land, and only a person with great spiritual strength can enter that world and return.

For those wondering what the heck is a Kadomatsu: A kadomatsu («gate pine») is a traditional Japanese decoration of the New Year placed in pairs in front of homes to welcome ancestral spirits or kami of the harvest.

This spirit is in search of the fragments of the Seasons and needs an envoy to meet the Guardians of the Seasons, large ancestral creatures who embody the essence of the Season they are protecting.

The patches on the base of the vitrines, showing where objects once stood, evoke a ghostly presence, calling forth the spirits of sculptural ancestors and ancestral sculptors and suggesting a continuation of line from the classical Greek and Roman through Scarpa to Bove and beyond.

While we already live in the realms of what used to be science fiction, we seem to have simultaneously gone back to our ancestral past — a time when ancient civilisations believed spirits inhabited plants, animals, geographic features and even objects.

GALERIE MEYER OCEANIC ART This Parisian gallery's exhibition of 39 extraordinary Papuan «spirit boards,» ancestral wooden figures carved in low relief, stands out not just in contrast to a tent of mostly contemporary Western art but also for the works» effortless aesthetic achievements.

The Primas show is complemented by a gorgeous adjourning survey of «Ancestral Spirit Dances» in the robust oil pastel style of Dayton's own Willis «Bing» Davis, and Davis» oeuvre is magnified by several installations at the University of Dayton.

Her «Memory» thesis collection draws heavily upon the influence of her native Korea, where cocoons and threads represent ancestral strength and spirit.

An nkisi, is an object said to be a miniatured world; a central ritual object that partakes of oral traditions, natural forces, ancestral spirits, divination and the ritual complex of the Bakongo.»

The invention of new sculptural forms to please ancestral spirits gives vitality to this spectacle - a testament to the remarkable capacity of the young people to respond to the preoccupations of the present.

Led by the spirit of inquiry and desire, Eregbu's work interrogates soul urgency and seeks to restore balance amongst past familial, ancestral, and collective traumas, with the intent of guiding a more vibrant and harmonious future.

They will also discuss Aaron's creation of a Housing First Program designed to assist Queer, Trans and Two - Spirit youth experiencing chronic and episodic homelessness on the unceded ancestral homelands of the Səl̓ílwəta, Xʷməθkwəy̓əm, & Sḵwx̱wúmesh peoples (Vancouver, BC).

Perhaps the most striking thing you'll notice is his extensive collection of kachina dolls, figures that represent deified ancestral spirits among the Hopi and other Indian tribes.