| The tradition of using portraits in ancestor worship reflects the faiths, customs, costumes, furniture and the art of painting. |
| And the connection must be through an agnate ancestor some generations older than the Royal personage. |
| Modern elephants and woolly mammoths share a common ancestor that split into separate species about 6 million years ago, the study reports. |
| A mixture of Shinto, Buddhism and ancestor worship has traditionally guided many Japanese martial practices. |
| He was the last high priest of this whare wananga, which had been established some 12 to 13 generations earlier by his ancestor Hingangaroa. |
| However, the Buddhists adapted their practices to include the Confucian custom of ancestor worship. |
