#ancestral

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.' ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#converted #culture #destroy #does #exist

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. ↗

— Margaret Walker

#body #collective #comes #deep #irrational

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment. ↗

— Keith Henson

#ancestral #environment #had #high #males

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen. ↗

— Keith Henson

#ancestral #characteristics #evolution #our #promoted

There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#ancestral-memory #bloodlines #dna #familial-perspectives #family

All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet. ↗

— Joshua Nkomo

#i #join #just #spirits #trying

People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#ancestral #another #find #form #however

More than anything, this place feels familiar. I bury my hands in the hot sand and think about the embodiment of memory or, more specifically, our natural ability to carry the past in our bodies and minds. Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation. I quietly thank this ancestor of mine for surviving the trip so that I could one day return. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#ancestral-continuum #ancestral-dna #ancestral-memory #journeying #life-journey

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. ↗

— George Eliot

#ancestral #city #funeral #gathered #hemisphere