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08-11-06, 09:39 PM
Jay Jay wrote:
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It's funny how ancestor worship by african people is viewed as primitive, yet the same by european, chinese and in the americas is not.
People going to prayer meetings, setting up alters for the passing of loved ones, visiting graves, laying flowers and other artifacts on the graves, pouring out alcohol on the grave or the ground, all these are offerings, asking or knowing that you are being looked over.
All sections of society and cultures does this, yet they don't relise it. Some white people leave rooms or bedrooms of the deceased the same like the last time they lived in it, this is a shrine and a big one at that, yet from my point of view moving into the room brings you closer to that person in a certain way, people may say this is bereavement, it is all ancestor worship, people might think it isn't, but it is.
It's funny what people class as ancestor worship, they drop the wording, call it something else yet do exactly the same thing.
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