Religion of the Li

They preserve the cult to the ancestors, and to the nature in his different declarations.

In general there is a worship to the different spirits of the objects and the most common events in his everyday life: of the ancestors, of the mountains, rivers, animals.

Although the spirits have no graduation, the men value them of different form for the way for the one that they could affect to them. This way, for the peoples Li, the most important spirits are those of the ancestors, who can still influence the present lives.

The shamans use different divination skills to know the will of these spirits.

In some branches they are that they support in totemismo primitively. As in the called "villages of the cat", that say to descend from a cat and a cat, protect all the cats, realizing a burial when they die.

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