Here, at the heart of the underground city, the walls were straight and true decorated with runes and carved pictures telling the stories of the ancestor gods.

They were seated in three rows at the centre of the shrine to Grungni, greatest of the ancestor gods and lord of mining.

A guild meeting was a formal occasion, part committee meeting, part celebration dedicated to Grungni and the other ancestor gods.

The army itself mustered under banners of gold and red and green, and under great scowling faces of Grimnir, most revered of the ancestor gods by the dwarfs of Zhufbar.

Everything outside is an illusion, a shadow play created by the ancestor gods to cradle us until we can build our own tailored reality and Upload into it.

They worship a god named Hashut, also known as the "Father of Darkness", rather than the Dwarf ancestor gods.

Kaunitoni, according to Fijian mythology, was a canoe which sailed from a mystical ancient homeland in the West, carrying the ancestor gods Lutunasobasoba and Degei, who are variously considered the ancestral founders of the Fijian race.

That's why they still dress up in ritual costumes; it reconnects people with their ancestor gods.

The frieze, more than 9 feet high and 30 feet long, features a three-dimensional figure of a Maya ruler, ancestor gods, shells, earth monsters and dancing figures.

The Tai Ahoms offer every new first seasonal crops, vegetables and fruits to the ancestors and they could take these only after offering these to their ancestor gods.