As the sun is hidden and is reborn each day, the cycle of death blends with nature. The individual is not only a body, but a close attachment to a more complex spiritual components. So to make it to the afterlife, should be subject to a series of rituals to ensure their integrity and dreamed transit. Most tribal peoples believe that the spirits of their dead still live. These undead are related to those who are still in this world. The living should honor the ancestral spirits, may have their protection and guidance and trust, above all, they accept their prayers and transmitted to the higher powers. The dead need of care and the offerings of the living, while they may be affected favorably existence-the protection of their ancestors, or harmful, evil spirits and ghosts, the influence of those. The primitive, usually believes in the survival of the dead. In his view, the dying man ceases to take part in group living but no longer exists. Simply passes from this world to another where he continues to live more or less time in new conditions. The individual dies and remains. Separated from the society of the living, then part of another group, that of the dead from their family or clan, where it is, more or less well received. They are equipped a life and a superhuman power that enables them to leave their underground and influence people for good or evil nature of men, animals, plants.
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The cave is the first natural coat, the first house, the first shelter for the living and dead. It is the place where lie the bones of ancestors awara. They were burying their dead in natural caves, close or far from their usual room. The intact burial sites are very limited, the product of an intense historical plunder, some motivated by the use of dust producing disintegrated or crushed bones as fertilizer, dust-known caves and excavations scientists and archaeologists since the nineteenth century to the present, the collection of corpses and mummies for mainland and foreign museums, and the most recent actions that have taken material out of curiosity or intention to redeem parts and that, over time, disappear or become part of shelves and cabinets individuals. From the position of the bodies may also be significant deductions. It is clear that the direction given to the bodies is closely related to religious issues, in between their own worldview. Many appear deposited on the ground without apparently there is a conscious intention, but also which were designed deliberately to the east or west. In this sense, there is an entire substrate in northern Africa that reflects a preferred orientation of funerary monuments, in the doors and skylights, to the winter solstice and the equinoxes. One of the best examples are found in the tombs of Sardinia, Sicily, in the Punic-Phoenician hypogea or North African hawanat (tombs carved into the rock) geared to the ES. It is difficult to find a categorical basis, but it is likely that when they look toward the east are related to the birth of the day, and therefore the idea of \u200b\u200bresurrection, and that when they go to the West respond to the idea that this place where it is hidden by the Sun, was already considered the abode of the dead. This trend is found in ancestral full force in the Christian tradition, both in the orientation of their temples as the bodies were buried in its soil: the head to the east and feet west. The sun becomes the prototype of the dead back to life every morning.
Some archaeologists as Joseph C. Cabrera, María Antonia Perera and Antonio Tejera agree on the close connection between the diverse cultures in ancestor worship and sun worship. Specifically, for the island of Tenerife, Antonio Tejera concludes that the Guanches believed that their ancestors were to meet with the Sun, spirits of their ancestors accompanied the sun on its daily journey. Undeniably, some kind of link between the Sun with the role that their worldview would play their ancestors. In North Africa, astrology and sun worship are inseparable from an exaggerated veneration of ancestors. Although it is a universal fact, due to the relevance assigned to the ancient African solar disk as a symbol of rebirth everyday, seasonal regeneration, representing the full embodiment of immortality with his daily return, which is accompanied by departed, returning each day to support their families alive. Also, it was no accident that the great Alexander Great pilgrims, traveling 500 miles through the desert until you reach the oasis of Siwa, Egypt, to be divinely invested in the Libyan oracle where he was the source of the Sun
