Sentence examples for as ancestors from inspiring English sources

"We think of this show as 'Ancestors II,'" he said.

On the mainland the Khmer peoples of Cambodia remain as ancestors of earlier Pareoean peoples.

They often represent supernatural spirits as well as ancestors and therefore have both a religious and a social significance.

But many curators have come to agree that Indians have a right to recover their sacred artifacts and the bones of those they can legitimately claim as ancestors.

(Asbury Park, New Jersey is named after him; Herbert Asbury claimed, somewhat tenuously, both Francis Asbury and Cotton Mather as ancestors).

With both Mondrian and Gerrit Rietveld as ancestors, they seem perfect for the narrow front halls often found in Dutch apartments, and exemplify a national mind-set in which space is at a premium.

We begin with a woman who is credited as "Ancestor, Singer, Musician" (Tandiwe Nofirst Lungisa).

Totemism is frequently mixed with different kinds of other beliefs, such as ancestor worship, ideas of the soul, or animism.

While his father disclaimed royal descent, Nebuchadrezzar claimed the third-millennium Akkadian ruler Naram-Sin as ancestor.

In patrician families these masks, or imagines, were sometimes preserved as ancestor portraits and were displayed on ceremonial occasions.

The Atoni honour a Lord of Heaven and a Lord of Earth, as well as ancestor spirits and forces of the hidden world.