ORIGINS OF HONORING THE DEAD

Origins of honouring the dead 

(around 600,000BCE -450,000 BCE)

In some culture, it is related to belief that the dead have a continued existence, and may possess the ability to influence the fortune of living. Honouring the dead is a practice of paying the respect of departed person from a specific ritual. Some evidence show that the homo heidelbergensis were first to bury their

ancestors. In this process of bury the ancestor in some kind of spiritual aspect to burial process is unknown. In some culture the burial process is still an ongoing process in which departed ancestor are viewed as a strong influence over their lives. Honouring the dead is not a traditional concept to respect their ancestor; it’s just a process for some specific ritual for the practice.