Ancestors are vested with mystical powers and authority. They retain a functional role in the world of the living, specifically in the life of their living kinsmen; indeed, African kin-groups are often described as communities of both the living and the dead. The relation of the ancestors to their living kinsmen has been described as ambivalent, as both punitive and benevolent and sometimes even as capricious. In general, ancestral benevolence is assured through propitiation and sacrifice; neglect is believed to bring about punishment. Ancestors are intimately involved with the welfare of their kin-group but they are not linked in the same way to every member of that group. The linkage is structured through the elders of the kin-group, and the elders' authority is related to their close link to the ancestors. In some sense the elders are the representatives of the ancestors and the mediators between them and the kin-group.
Gold is valuable to West Africans because they could make gold coins and othe things.
They viewed them as savages.
treated them as family
No, many people in West Africa were forced into slavery, but many others were not.
The ancient Romans did not exactly worship their ancestors as much as honoring them. They had special festivals in which honor was paid to their ancestors. If the ancestor was famous, they could have a wax mask made of him and that mask was displayed in the atrium of the house and carried in funeral processions of current members of the family.
West Africans (from Sierra Leone) Ghana or even The Gambia
Yes …… Buddhists do honor their ancestors, but their heroes.
Enslaved Africans came primarily from a region stretching from the Senegal River in northern Africa to Angola in the South. Jamaicians are largely of mixed race and West African descent.
Art could be used to honor spirit's, royalty, and ancestors
Basically -- Africans, Polynesians, Maylasians, and the Spanish are the ancestors of the Filipinos.
To honor their ancestors
Most West Africans live in Nigeria.
Most West Africans live in Nigeria.
West Africans received salt from the Sahara.
It was similar because African religion was based on the worship of ancestors of spirits both good and bad and the Kalinago worshiped their ancestors and nature and believed in evil spirits or as they call it (maboya) the second reason was that the west Africans believed that soul lives on so that the ancestors were always with you just like how the Kalinago believe that the spirit of their ancestors lived on after death to protect them and the Arawaks(Tainos) religious beliefs and songs were about spirits and ancestors and the life of the village.
Ancestors
Dead relatives or ancestors