The phrase "ancestral authorities" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the traditional or historical figures of authority within a family or cultural lineage.
Example: "In many cultures, ancestral authorities are consulted for guidance in important family decisions."
Alternatives: "heritage leaders" or "lineage elders".
The secretary of the Great Council of Ancestral Authorities commented that living Maya felt they were excluded from the activities in Tikal.
According to the ancestral authorities of the Mayan Ixil community of Cotzal, the mega hydroelectric projects have caused prolific damages to their traditional way of life, to their community cohesiveness, and to their local environment.
The ancestral authorities of Cotzal affirm that, "we have rights over our mountains and forests and rivers and that right includes the entitlement to benefit from the wealth of these to create a better life for our communities according to our cosmovision and culture".
Despite the superficial progressivism and internationalism of his concerns, Wenders became the exemplary art-house filmmaker of the age of Reagan, and his aesthetic, with its pious deference to ancestral authority, remains stuck in that mode of stirringly reactionary sentimentalism.
Mana Tupuna (Ancestral authority) helps us know who we are, from whom we descend, and what our obligations are to those who come after us.
Among the most significant of these were Besakana, erected in the early 17th century by Andrianjaka and considered the throne of the kingdom, and Mahitsielafanjaka, a later building which came to represent the seat of ancestral spiritual authority at the Rova.
Described in 1888 as the seat of ancestral spiritual authority at the Rova, the traditional sacrifice of a rooster during the ceremony of the Fandroana took place here, and ombiasy (astrologers) asked to perform sikidy (divination) for a sovereign would do so within this space.
The Cao family wanted to hold a ceremony in its ancestral village, but the authorities forbade it.
At the Philharmonic, as at most American orchestras, there is an ancestral longing for accented authority.
Simopithecus, a giant ancestral forerunner, according to most authorities, of the present-day genus, Theropithecus (gelada), was unearthed from Olduvai Gorge and South Africa and was recently discovered also in India.
International campaign groups say the authorities are forcing the bushmen off their ancestral lands in order to make way for diamond mining - the mainstay of Botswana's economy.
