Sentences with phrase «of dead ancestors»
His family can no longer see him, but Miguel can now see all of his dead ancestors — who look like fantastically decorative skeletons — crossing over a bright bridge made of marigold flower petals.
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Many ancestral «religions» (a relatively new contrived word) have not gods, just spirits of dead ancestors or places or things.
A large number of illiterate and semi-educated — and some of the educated — Muslims are also great believers in prayers for the souls of dead ancestors.
I don't understand why anyone would be offended by someone praying for the souls of their dead ancestors, whatever religion you happen to be, if you don't believe in God it isn't like it hurts anything, if you beleive in a different God, again it isn't like it hurts anything...
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Well, yeah... and I mean if what someone is really trying to achieve with this is to reduce practices that in any way, shape or form could indicate that someone bears them or their faith ill will... I don't think publicly humiliating people who would take the time to look up your dead ancestor's name and then take the time to drive to a temple and then get immersed in water on their behalf so that they (by their belief) have the option to accept your religion post mortem is really misguided and contrary to the spirit of freedom of religion in what it advocates.
The reason we do baptisms for the dead is to offer our deceased ancestors an opportunity to accept the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Grant that Mormons have good intentions in baptizing dead folks; and I am not particularly upset with the baptism of my Lutheran ancestors, as indicated in LDS records.
Therefore, only someone stuck in the ignorant mentality of the brain - dead ancestors of thousands of years ago, could possibly care about what «the bible» (like there's only one, right?)
Separation of Church and State was something the ancestors came to this land with, but that concept is dead.
For example, a common Mormon practice is baptism for dead ancestors, which is based on a particular interpretation of 1 Cor 15:29.
I belong to the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints and this is why we practice baptizing a proxy (someone living) for dead ancestors.
I am checking the comments here and waiting when finally some moron (pan is not intended) would mention that Mormons also eat flesh of their dead, Jews use blood of Christian children to prepare Passover matzo, Muslims dream of nothing but killing all non-Muslims, and Buddhists do not exterminate roaches because they may have souls of their ancestors.
Unless you believe that all of your ancestors are actually not dead, and are waiting for you alive in heaven.
Can't say they are living, for, they too, are spiritually dead following the lies of their ancestor, satan as they walk this earth.
Many of the miners in his town worshipped statues of Satan, and most of the people left food out for the dead on All Saints» Day, sprinkling flour on the floor and later looking to see if their ancestors had visited and left footprints.
«As the sons and daughters of the slaves, let us give life to our dead ancestors by speaking in a loud voice that says, «I have searched for you and I have found you.
He says the research team chose the two species because they are among the most primitive forms of fish, so they can provide more clues about the bodies of their long - dead ancestors.
Yet he cautions that the «conclusions of the paper are overstated» because the study does not prove that prehistoric lice were actually infesting the direct ancestors of today's bird and mammal species rather than other animals that may have led to evolutionary dead ends.
They tend to see ergaster as a direct ancestor of modern humans with erectus being an evolutionary dead - end.
Homo habilis may be a direct human ancestor, a dead - end side - branch that leads nowhere, an invalid species whose designated examples belong in other species, or Wolpoff may be right, and all these species are basically part of one highly variable widespread species.
Coco is set during the Mexican holiday known as Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), a celebration in which families pay respect to their deceased ancestors.
Focused on the tradition of the Day of the Dead, in which families gather to celebrate their deceased ancestors, Coco offers a festive, reverent, and wide - ranging pastiche of Mexican culture, touching on everything from Frida Kahlo to luchadores to the golden age of Mexican cinema.
Still willing to continue in his passion, Miguel sneaks into the mausoleum of none other than his idol, de la Cruz, and snags his famous guitar, only to find that playing the instrument immediately channels him straight into the Land of the Dead, where he meets the deceased ancestors his family always honors for the Day of the Dead, including Mama Imelda (Ubach, To the Bone), from whom he will need a family member's blessing before sunrise in order to return to the realm of the living.
In Pixar's Coco, a young Mexican boy named Miguel visits the spirits of his ancestors in the Land of the Dead, where he's gone to escape his parents» refusal to let him pursue his dream of being a musician.
Land of our Ancestors: (6:19) Focuses on all the different ways Coco «s animators set about enlivening a story about the Day of the Dead.
Blu - ray adds «The Music of Coco»; «Paths to Pixar: Coco»; «Welcome to the Fiesta»; «How to Draw a Skeleton»; «A Thousand Pictures a Day» travelogue through Mexico, visiting families, artisans, cemeteries, and small villages during the Día de los Muertos holiday; «Mi Familia»; «Land of Our Ancestors» in which Pixar artists lovingly construct layer upon layer of architecture from many eras of Mexican history, bringing the Land of the Dead to life; «Fashion Through the Ages»; «The Real Guitar»; «How to Make Papel Picado»; «Un Poco Coco» montage of original animated pieces used to promote «Coco»; «Coco» trailers.
A family curse lands Miguel in the Land of the Dead, where his deceased ancestors work to get him back to the land of the living, as well as unlock the truth behind the boy's family history.
The Day of the Dead — inspired new movie would have benefited from being a little less faithful to its ancestors.
During Dia De Muertos, Miguel sneaks into the church where Ernesto's guitar is located and is transported to the Land of the Dead, where he meets his ancestors and a trickster named Hector Rivera (Gael Garcia Bernal).
«Coco»: Speaking of Oscars, Disney Pixar's animated musical movie a couple of boy who ventures to the Land of the Dead to search out an ancestor received one for highest animated function movie.
At least that's the official story passed down through the generations; it'll be challenged as the film unfolds, not through a traditional detective story (although there's a mystery element to «Coco») but through an «Alice in Wonderland» journey to the Land of the Dead, which the hero accesses through the tomb of his ancestors.
Mora presents a unique family memoir through the voices of her ancestors both dead and alive across a year of magical moments, songs, recipes, and messages.
August is Ghost Month in Taiwan - a time to commemorate the dead: burn incense, visit shrines, honor ancestors, and avoid unlucky situations, large purchases, and bodies of water.
The characters are delightfully typecast - there's the tragic figure of our much put - upon anti-hero who is driven to commit violence for what he believes is a justified cause; a truly dastardly old - Etonian poetry - spouting villain (who, if this was a play, would receive hisses from the audience every time he came on stage); the exceedingly wealthy and influential Lord Tansor, living off the gains of his brighter ancestors; a dead - ringer for Uriah Heap; plus a massive supporting cast representing every strata of society, both urban and country; and last but not least, Evenwood House itself and its great library - the representation of everything that Edward yearns for but that remains tantalizingly out of reach.
When not writing, she haunts cemeteries and dusty archives in search of long - dead ancestors and pursues her most important work - in - progress, her daughter.
Oh, that's easy — all those classics of literature were written by Dead White Males (even when they were written by the ancestors of people now counted as chic minorities, by women, or both).
The local religion is Agama Hindu - Dharma and centres on the 5 ritualistic pillars of gods and ancestors, demons, the stages of human growth, the dead, and the consecration of priests.
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Track down the necessary items to free the dead ancestor of Cardinal House, a shaman, and many other characters.
Memory Trace: Dia De Los Muertos Information Center was a second iteration of the zine project aimed at informing «new» neighbors at the Day of Dead Festival in Fruitvale about the Mexican tradition of honoring their ancestors.
She traces her fascination with mortality and the body to the atmosphere of this house, surrounded by the dead belongings of her ancestors.
There's much more to the story of human civilization built upon a unified code of moral and spiritual precepts than the names of ancestors long dead like Confucius, Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad.
The Warriors reflected on Sunday's powerful events — the symbolic rain during the sevusevu ceremony inviting the spirit and presence of ancestors, and the thousands of activists who entered the mine with Ende Gelände as a kind of resurrection, bringing life back into Germany's bleak dead coal mines.
Ancestry spokesman Dallin Hatch said this week that the site has no birth records from the state of Florida, and said the database is designed to help people find long - dead ancestors, not people who had been living in 2018.