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    How To Create An Ancestral Altar

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    To create an ancestral altar: - Gather items like a table, photos of ancestors, candles, flowers, food, water, and earth. - Drape a cloth over the table and arrange the items, lighting incense to purify the space. - Address your ancestors by introducing yourself, naming them, giving offerings of food and water, asking for guidance, and thanking them for listening before concluding with prayer. - You can focus on ancestors' positive qualities, say their names, and offer water and food daily or weekly to honor and remember them.

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    To create an ancestral altar: - Gather items like a table, photos of ancestors, candles, flowers, food, water, and earth. - Drape a cloth over the table and arrange the items, lighting incense to purify the space. - Address your ancestors by introducing yourself, naming them, giving offerings of food and water, asking for guidance, and thanking them for listening before concluding with prayer. - You can focus on ancestors' positive qualities, say their names, and offer water and food daily or weekly to honor and remember them.

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    To create an ancestral altar: - Gather items like a table, photos of ancestors, candles, flowers, food, water, and earth. - Drape a cloth over the table and arrange the items, lighting incense to purify the space. - Address your ancestors by introducing yourself, naming them, giving offerings of food and water, asking for guidance, and thanking them for listening before concluding with prayer. - You can focus on ancestors' positive qualities, say their names, and offer water and food daily or weekly to honor and remember them.

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    How To Create An Ancestral Altar

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    To create an ancestral altar: - Gather items like a table, photos of ancestors, candles, flowers, food, water, and earth. - Drape a cloth over the table and arrange the items, lighting incense to purify the space. - Address your ancestors by introducing yourself, naming them, giving offerings of food and water, asking for guidance, and thanking them for listening before concluding with prayer. - You can focus on ancestors' positive qualities, say their names, and offer water and food daily or weekly to honor and remember them.

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    How to Create an Ancestral Altar

    To create an altar you will need:


    A table, flat stone, or shelf
    White cloth
    Photos and mementos of your ancestors
    White candle
    Glass or crystal bowl of water
    Fresh-cut flowers
    Incense
    A portion of each meal of the day
    A dish with nine different types of earth, including graveyard dirt
    Drape the white cloth over the table or shelf. If using a stone, leave it bare. Place the glass bowl of water in the
    center of the table and the white candle behind the bowl. Arrange the photos and mementos, flowers, and bowl of
    earth on the altar in a manner that pleases you. The bowl of food should go in front of the bowl of water. You can
    add a small white candle in the bowl of food as well.
    Do NOT salt the food!
    How to Address the Ancestors
    First, light the incense to purify your surroundings. Sprinkle a little fresh water on the items on your altar, including
    the earth, to give respect to your ancestors. Light your candle and offer it to the four sacred directionseast, west,
    north, and souththen place it behind the bowl of water. Begin speaking to your ancestors by introducing yourself.
    Say something like,
    Greetings, ancestors, my name is ___________________, son/daughter of ____________________ and
    __________________, and I come with a pure heart to honor you with these offerings.
    I honor [Say all of your ancestors names out loud]. I honor all of those remembered and forgotten, who were
    associated with my ancestors as friends, companions, and loved ones. I love, honor, and respect all who have gone
    before me.
    To all my relations, all grandmothers and grandfathers, all elders and ancient ones, to all the creatures, plants, and
    living things of our Mother Earth, I offer my reverence and gratitude. I thank you for your guidance and protection,
    seen and unseen.
    For all those who suffered so that we may carry on the traditions, for those who died prematurely, in a violent
    manner, or to anyone in particular need, I offer this special prayer so that you may rest in peace through the
    intercession of the four archangels and the Seven African Powers.
    You can say the prayer to the Seven African Powers here or another prayer of your preference, followed by a sincere
    prayer of your own. You can now talk to your ancestors about your problems and ask them for guidance. When you
    are finished, offer them the food and drink and thank them for listening. Take a moment and meditate on your life,
    focusing on your blessings and abundance. Visualize passing on all that is good to your ancestors who have gone
    before you and to those yet to come. To conclude, pour water on the ground and say Ase! Let the candles burn out
    if possible.

    At any time, you can focus on the positive aspects of your loved ones and pour water for them. Do this daily or
    weekly, while saying their names out loud. You can remember them by offering them some of the food you eat every
    day. A point of clarification: we do NOT worship our ancestors. We honor and respect them, and ask for their
    guidance.

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