Sentence examples for ancestral blessing from inspiring English sources

Sierra Leone farmers see rice genetic resources as an "ancestral blessing" (Richards 1996), while complex rituals surround the cultivation of O. glaberrima in Eastern Ghana (Brydon 1981).

This particular family lives a short walk from Puvali's Dev Narayan, but they believe that the more remote Banjari's Dev Narayan located near their ancestral home has blessed two generations with long-awaited sons.

The shaman asks the ancestral spirit to bless the Sen Huen host (or head of the family) and his family members.

Maya performance contexts include shamanic rituals for curing, house blessing, and protection of crops and livestock, as well as calendric observances honouring ancestral deities.

Mudor itself means "ground," so that the ceremony in fact was the blessing of a new site taken over by people breaking off from the ancestral lineage when it expanded past a critical point.

Gurmeet Singh Bassi, 33, blessed with a farm on the edges of a booming Punjabi city called Ludhiana, sold off most of his ancestral land.

Identifying Ancestral Photos Q.

11: "Ancestral Voices".

Off Broadway * "ANCESTRAL VOICES".

But ancestral traits linger.

"Your ancestral friend.