The men are his dead ancestors, who unlike him managed to find happiness.

This food is said to be for the dead ancestors of the person who put it there.

Experts think the stone men probably represented dead ancestors, and were important in the old island religion.

Was he responsible for the mad act of an ancestor dead now nearly four hundred years?

The grass and the buffalo would return, along with the ghosts of their dead ancestors.

I hear more about his dead ancestors than the living relatives.

They think having a lot of dead ancestors makes them fine folk.

This day is also dedicated to the pitrs, dead ancestors.

He wants to go through life carried on the shoulders of his dead ancestors.

However, dead ancestors are often prayed for during Mass and various prayer services.