ancestor worship

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ancestor worship (87:3sec). See also religion
advancing ghost cult made inevitable (87:3.1)
always fostered monogamy (83:6.3)
backward-looking (79:8.8)
based on belief the dead punished the disobedient (68:4.3)
Buddhism amalgamated with (94:11.1)
failure to have sons viewed as supreme calamity (84:7.19)
great strength is value placed upon the family (79:8.9-10)
in China (79:8.3) (94:5.7)
caused stagnation in China (79:6.9) (79:8.4,7-10)
Confucius established respect for ancestral conduct (94:6.9)
in Europe after fall of Rome (79:8.3)
Jews tended to overhonor ancestors (140:8.14)
regrettably persists in China, Japan, and India (92:6.20)
ritual developed into pseudo seance; ghosts appeared (70:7.15)
solar veneration became species of (95:2.7)

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