The phrase "ancestral authority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing lineage, heritage, or the influence of ancestors on current beliefs or practices.
Example: "In many cultures, ancestral authority plays a significant role in decision-making and governance."
Alternatives: "heritage influence" or "lineage power".
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.
As the ancestral authorities from the four communities, it is we who need to administer these areas because they belong to us," says Don Santiago in Santa Maria.
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".
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.
At the Philharmonic, as at most American orchestras, there is an ancestral longing for accented authority.
The Cao family wanted to hold a ceremony in its ancestral village, but the authorities forbade it.
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.
