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Posted: Monday October 23rd, 2006 10:01 |
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| I have noticed when white people talk about ancestor worship in Africa, they class it as a PRIMITIVE faith..........what are your thoughts?
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Posted: Monday October 30th, 2006 09:16 |
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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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Posted: Monday October 30th, 2006 11:36 |
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Like wise having a grave and visiting it.
Ancestor worship is a deeply engrained in our African souls which is why Most "secular" Europeans refuse to recognise the anquish of Diasporians over the Slave Trade
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Posted: Wednesday November 8th, 2006 20:39 |
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Jay Jay wrote: 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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Posted: Friday November 10th, 2006 16:39 |
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M@LaiKa wrote: I have noticed when white people talk about ancestor worship in Africa, they class it as a PRIMITIVE faith..........what are your thoughts?
What about, how Europeans view it or the faith itself?
How the Europeans view it, well I don't really care, the amount of books they write and TV shows they base on dead people is quite frankly disturbing. As is the practice of worshipping a man bleeding to death on a piece of wood.
As for ancestor worship. Personally think it's pointless and a complete waste of time.
Let the dead bury the dead, and the dead worship the dead.
Put it this way would people worship them in the various fashions that they do while the people are alive? Of course not, you'd freak them out.
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