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:*The Ancestors are deceased members of the Fu family that, in a ghost like form, still have very real connections with the living world. In fact, Mulan's father prays to them. [http://www.christiananswers.net/spotlight/movies/pre2000/i-mulan.html Christian Spotlight on the Movies]
:*The Ancestors are deceased members of the Fu family that, in a ghost like form, still have very real connections with the living world. In fact, Mulan's father prays to them. [http://www.christiananswers.net/spotlight/movies/pre2000/i-mulan.html Christian Spotlight on the Movies]
:It may be a bit heavy-handed to associate [[ancestor worship]] with the [[occult]], but a bigger question is whether the Chinese "veneration" of ancestors goes this far. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 09:34, 20 January 2010 (EST)
:It may be a bit heavy-handed to associate [[ancestor worship]] with the [[occult]], but a bigger question is whether the Chinese "veneration" of ancestors goes this far. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 09:34, 20 January 2010 (EST)
::At the risk of sounding [[postmodernism|postmodernist]] (God forbid), it would be a mistake to talk about the occult, which is a Western concept, with an unrelated Eastern culture. The occult's entire history, indeed its very definition, involves a westerner operating ''outside of'' western religious practice. Even when borrowing from eastern religions which occultists freely mix with other pre-Christian European practices, it's always westerners we're talking about. Perhaps one might say that a self-professed Wiccan worshipping his ancestors would be occult, but a Japanese buddhist doing the same would not. [[User:JDWpianist|JDWpianist]] 09:47, 20 January 2010 (EST)