Cult Of The Dead
Scope Note
Avoidance of graves and cemeteries; propitiation of ghosts and ancestors; recurrent feasts of the dead; maintaining relations with the long dead; ancestor worship; household cults; hero worship; etc.
- Broader Term
- 760 Death
- Related Terms
- 577 Ethics
- 590 Family
- 775 Eschatology
- 780 Religious Practices
- Use Fors
- Ancestor cults
- Ancestor worship
- Ancestral worship
- Ancestry (ideas about)
- Avoidance (graves and cemeteries)
- Cemeteries (taboo and avoidance)
- Dead (feasts)
- Deification of ancestors
- Feasts of the dead
- Ghost Dance (cult of the dead)
- Ghosts (in cult of the dead)
- Graves (avoidance)
- Heroe worship (cult of the dead)
- Household cults of the dead
- Martyrs (deified heroes)
- Propitiation of the dead/ghosts
- Relics (in cults of the dead)
- Worship of ancestors
- Worship of dead heroes
- Identifier
- 769
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