allowed direct descendants of the Shang royal family to continue ancestral veneration traditions in Song. Ancestor deification and veneration was practiced...
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spirits—which included both natural and ancestral deities—while also being composed of all of them. The highest of the Shang gods was Shangdi (上帝), or simply...
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Bi Gan (redirect from Bigan (Shang minister))
prime minister of the Kingdom of Shang during the late Shang dynasty, and a member of the Shang royal family. His ancestral name was "Zi" (子). He was the...
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sung during early Western Zhou ancestral rituals, with the very oldest ones probably dated to the Zhou conquest of Shang (c. 1046 BCE), and the youngest...
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Religious Confucianism (section Xia-Shang)
practices as heaven sacrifice, jisi, and fengshan. Elements include the deification and worship of Confucius, the seventy-two disciples, Mencius, Zhu Xi...
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capable of enjoying sacrificial offerings". Unlike in Hinduism, the deification of historical persons and ancestors is not traditionally the duty of...
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why it depicted prestigious themes, such as the deification of royal power, and the cults of ancestral heroes and of military valour. The "Animal Style"...
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Paul's Rhetorical World". The Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ: Deification of Jesus in Early Christian Discourse. Journal of Pentecostal Theology:...
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goddess of compassion Guanyin who similarly saves mariners. She is the deification of the shamaness Lin Moniang (林默娘, 960–987) a fisherman's daughter from...
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