[[human]] | [[death]] | **This page is for how the PIEs and IEs would have seen *their* ancestors. For how [[content-producers-and-practitioners]] view their ancestors see the page [[heritage]].** | [[religion]], [[pie-religion]] [[ritual]] [[cults]] *** #cleanup ## Biblio [[rolinson2018-09-26]] [[rolinson2019-9-8a]] [[rolinson-series-dead]] [[rolinson2019-09-17]] ## Topics `+` cosmography = [[realm-of-the-ancestors]] `+` festivals = [[festival--ancestors]] `+` candles = [[dzierzykray2022]] ### Branches Skt. [[pitrs]] ### Chaos [[ghosts-shades]] Special Figures [[mythical-ancestors]] ### Types Where the "Fathers" seen as martial (i.e. war dead) or just ancestors? - non-war-associated-dead - [[war-dead]], past kings #### Cult of Ancestors [[rolinson2019-12-26]] ##### Connection to [[cult-of-weapons]] - 2nd half of the paragraph below: [Wikipedia: PIE myth: Cults](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European-mythology#Cults) ## Look Into - #lookinto: It seems the [[ancestors-the-dead]] refered exclusivly to those related by blood to IE cultural practioners, and not to all the dead in the world. Where did they think non-IE ancestors resided? The IE underworld? or their own underworlds?. This gets into the broader questions and issues of ancient [[interpretatio]] and cultural contact.