>No, I'm trying to find a way to make ancestor worship
>more workable from a sociological perspective. If you
>go back to an ancestor from mythical times, the number
>of descendants is likely to be pretty big.
So is the number of ancestors. Do you think that if one shaman in one clan contacts an ancestor and puts it in a fetish, that another shaman from another clan can't then contact the same ancestor? I don't, not in the normal course of events.
Philip Hibbs http://www.snark.freeserve.co.uk/ Opinions expressed may not even be my own, let alone those of any organisations, nations, species, or schools of thought to which I may be affiliated.
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