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Ancestor worship in modern-day Myanmar is largely confined to some ethnic minority communities, but mainstream remnants of it still exist, such as worship of Bo Bo Gyi (literally "great grandfather"), as well as of other guardian spirits such as nats, all of which may be vestiges of historic ancestor worship.
Days of the Dead / Los Días de Muertos. San Francisco CA: Pomegranate 1998 ISBN 0764906194; Haley, Shawn D.; Fukuda, Curt. Day of the Dead: When Two Worlds Meet in Oaxaca. Berhahn Books, 2004. ISBN 1-84545-083-3; Lane, Sarah and Marilyn Turkovich, Días de los Muertos/Days of the Dead. Chicago 1987. Lomnitz, Claudio. Death and the Idea of ...
Qodrat is a 2022 Indonesian supernatural religious action horror film directed by Charles Gozali. The film stars Vino G. Bastian, and Marsha Timothy. It was released in Indonesia in 27 October 2022 by Rapi Films, [2] and then for worldwide audience on Amazon Prime Video. [3] [4] In March 2023, it was announced that Qodrat 2 is in development. [5]
[citation needed] The dead were also honoured at Samhain. The beginning of winter may have been seen as the most fitting time to do so, as it was a time of 'dying' in nature. The souls of the dead were thought to revisit their homes seeking hospitality. Places were set at the dinner table and by the fire to welcome them. [citation needed]
Suzzanna was a major film star in the 1970s and 1980s for her work in horror films. She appeared in 42 films before her death in 2008, including Bernafas dalam Lumpur , Beranak dalam Kubur and Sundel Bolong. [7]
Dead Birds is a 1963 American documentary film by Robert Gardner about the ritual warfare cycle of the Dugum Dani people who live in the Baliem Valley in present-day Highland Papua province (then a part of Papua province known as Irian Jaya) on the western half of the island of New Guinea in Indonesia. [1] The film presents footage of battles ...
Day of the Dead is a 1985 American post-apocalyptic zombie horror film written and directed by George A. Romero, and produced by Richard P. Rubinstein.The third film in Romero's Night of the Living Dead series, it stars Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato, Jarlath Conroy and Richard Liberty as members of a group of survivors of a zombie apocalypse sheltering in an underground bunker ...
Ancestor Worship is, as User:IrishJew says, a topic that merits an article independent from the more general Veneration of the dead. I would ask my Chinese grandmother to contribute to this article, as she regularly worships her deceased parents-in-law on the Lunar New Year, birthdays, the regular New Year, and Christmas (go figure), but she's ...