Word: ancestors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grave-faced Emperor Hirohito last week wrapped himself in a silken robe embroidered with the sacred Paulownia blossom and stepped into the innermost sanctuary of the Imperial Palace to worship his mythological ancestress, the Sun Goddess, celebrating the ascension to the throne 2,601 years ago of his lineal ancestor, the great Emperor Jimmu. Aside from the fact, of no great importance, that there is no historical evidence that Jimmu ever existed, there was a striking difference between the two ceremonies 2.601 years apart: whereas Jimmu had given thanks to the Sun Goddess after his conquest of Central Japan, Hirohito...
Having paid a visit to the university's statue of his distinguished ancestor, Refugee John Harvard Baker, 9, direct descendant of Harvard's first big benefactor, broadcast disappointedly to his father in Scarborough, England: "He doesn't look like...
...grandson of Henry the Lion, great-great-grandson of Henry II of England, whose daughter Matilda married into the German royal house of Saxony. To welcome "Iron Hermann" into the ranks of royalty, the city of Brunswick, where Henry the Lion is buried, sent him a replica of that ancestor's statue...
...Pennsylvania, has cultured an exceedingly primitive, golden yellow slime mold called Physarum polycephalum, just about the lowest observable form of life. In its streaming he has clocked a major rhythm of about 45 seconds (TIME, Dec. 6, 1937). Rather like a primordial heartbeat, this pulse may be the ancestor of all real heartbeats...
...When I stand in front of the shrine at Ise, I feel differently from the way I feel at any other place," he reported Bishop Abe as saying. "I feel a great sense of peace, of inexpressible sacredness, of oneness with the Ancestor of my country [Amaterasu Omikami] and my own ancestors. I am moved with a feeling of holiness, of piety. My spirit worships, but this is not religion. It is respect, adoration...