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The 36 pages that link to Ancestor veneration, each with the reason it gives.

• Filial pietyRelated: Respect for ancestors extends filial duties beyond the living family.

• AfterlifeRelated: It treats the dead as enduring members of family and community.

• MummificationRelated: Preserved bodies could sustain relationships between the living and the dead.

• SanteríaRelated: Honoring the dead connects Santería’s living communities with inherited spiritual relationships.

• PatrilinealityRelated: Patrilineal traditions may organize ancestor rites around a father's lineage.

• EuhemerismRelated: Veneration of powerful ancestors offers one route by which mortals might acquire divine status.

• BurialRelated: Burial places can become sites for continuing relationships with ancestors.

• DeityCompared with: Honored ancestors may receive religious rites without being classified as deities.

• Haitian VodouRelated: Honoring the dead connects Vodou practice to family continuity and spiritual life.

• African traditional religionsRelated: Relationships with ancestors are prominent in many traditions, though their roles differ among communities.

• MediumshipRelated: It provides a wider cultural context for communication with the dead.

• ObonNarrower topic: Obon gives ancestor veneration a major annual place in Japanese family and community life.

• Soul (spirituality)Related: Beliefs about continuing personal existence can give the dead an ongoing place in family life.

• Buddhism in VietnamRelated: Ancestor rites often coexist with Buddhist observances in Vietnamese homes and temples.

• Fertility deityCompared with: It offers another way communities connect continuity of life with sacred powers.

• Funerary artRelated: In some traditions, funerary objects support ongoing relationships between descendants and the dead.

• Grave goodsRelated: Ongoing relationships with ancestors can shape what communities place in or near graves.

• Lunar New YearRelated: Many celebrations include offerings or rites that connect family reunions with remembrance.

• MausoleumRelated: Family mausoleums can anchor repeated rites of remembrance.

• Prehistoric religionRelated: Burial places and offerings may reflect continuing relationships between communities and their dead.

• CemeteryRelated: Family graves can anchor recurring acts of remembrance and respect.

• Mongolian shamanismRelated: Relations with ancestors are a central strand in many Mongolian shamanic traditions.

• Neolithic religionRelated: Repeated treatment of skulls and human remains has been interpreted as evidence of continuing relations with the dead.

• TengrismRelated: Ancestor rites connect family continuity with spiritual obligations in Tengrism.

• TombRelated: Some tombs support recurring rites that maintain bonds with deceased family members.

• Ghost FestivalRelated: Family offerings during the festival renew obligations to deceased ancestors.

• NecromancyCompared with: It addresses the dead but centers on kinship and reverence rather than magical conjuration.

• MaudgalyayanaRelated: Traditions about his mother helped connect Buddhist practice with care for the dead.

• West African VodúnRelated: Ancestors are sources of guidance and power alongside Vodún spirits.

• Bantu religionRelated: Many traditions treat ancestors as active members of family and community life.

• Berber traditional religionRelated: Honoring the dead is reported in accounts of ancient North African religious practice.

• Eastern religionsRelated: It appears in several Asian traditions, though its forms and theological meanings differ.

• Folk religionRelated: Household and community rites may treat ancestors as active participants in daily life.

• SarnaismRelated: Ancestral spirits are among the beings honored in Sarna traditions.

• Veneration of the deadRelated: It centers on family ancestors as continuing participants in the lives of descendants.

• Yulanpen SutraRelated: The sutra gives Buddhist grounds for caring for deceased parents through offerings.