Calling to Our Ancestors 2nd Edition

Hey folks. I am putting together the 2nd Edition of Calling to Our Ancestors. I have the outline written. I am looking for contributors. Do you have Ancestor workers’ voices you think should be included? Poems, prayers, songs, essays, artwork, rituals, etc that you are allowed to share?

Prayers, poems, and rituals can be as long or short as you feel called to write them. Artwork should be at least 300 dpi preferably in lossless formats so it prints well on publication. Essays should be at minimum 700 words. All contributors retain rights to their work. If you are interested in contributing please contact me at sarenth@gmail.com. I will need a legal name and address to send a release form to you, as well as what name you would like the work published under.

I am looking to pull together as many resources for folks as I can. Do you have videos, eg on YouTube or documentaries you would recommend covering Ancestors, Ancestor work, rituals, etc? Podcasts? Books? Audiobooks and written? Blogs? Folks that are trusted Ancestor workers?

My aim with this 2nd Edition is to address what folks were most often telling me they wanted from the 1st Edition: more information on actually venerating and working with the Ancestors.

I have finally begun to put my fingers to the keys again to get the initial outline copied over from my Tūl notebook to my Google Docs.

This is what the outline currently looks like. I am having an issue getting it to look exactly like my outline in Google Docs, since I organize I, A, i, then a, and WordPress is being frustrating with formatting.

1. Introduction
   1. Dedication
   2. Foreword
   3. Notes on the Second Edition
2. The Ancestors
   1. Who They Are
   2. Worship and Veneration
   3. A Basic Polytheist Ancestor Altar and/or Shrine
   4. Offerings
   5. Acts of Service
   6. Sacrifice
   7. Expanding Ancestors
      1. Marriage
      2. Employment
      3. Profession/Craft
      4. Adoption
      5. Initiation/Acceptance into a Lineage
      6. Death
   8. Reducing Ancestors
      1. Divorce
      2. Retirement/Firing
      3. Putting a craft/job down
      4. Cutting out/leaving family/relatives
      5. Removal/Leaving/Exile, eg excommunication in Christianity, ADF stripping Bonewitz’ ancestry
      6. Not worshiping/venerating abusive dead people
   9. Ancestor Veneration vs Worship vs Work
      1. Definitions
      2. Differences between them
      3. Similarities
   10. Talking With The Ancestors
       1. Divination
       2. Dreams
       3. Clairaudience, clairsentience, etc.
       4. Speaking out loud at the altar/shrine
       5. Rituals
   11. Rituals for Connection
       1. Regular devotionals
       2. Sample devotional rites
       3. Simple
          1. Drinking a cup of coffee/tea/water with the Ancestors after a simple cleansing
       4. Complex
          1. At least once a week making prayers and leaving an offering on the shrine and cleaning it within a prescribed time.
       5. Prayer beads
          Special events, eg marriage, coming of age, etc
       6. Funerary Rites
       7. Rituals for Healing
       8. Rituals for Reconciliation
          1. With living descendents present, eg the victims of a dead abuser coming together and holding him to account with the Ancestors
          2. Bringing healing to Ancestors through a healing ritual bringing the powerful Ancestors together with one’s Gods of healing and family lines.
       9. Rituals for Reckoning
          1. Abusive dead in the line
          2. Wrongs done by one’s Ancestors to another’s
          3. Independent cutting of cords so a harmful Ancestor is outside of your cultus until and unless they do right.
   12. Open Doors -Ancestor Workers
       1. What They Are
       2. What They Do
       3. Basic Skills
       4. Being Called
       5. Doing the Work
3. Essays
4. Rituals
5. Prayers
6. Resources
   1. Ancestor Books (print, digital, and audiobook)
   2. YouTube, podcasts, and other media on Ancestors and Ancestor work
   3. People willing to be contacted for Ancestor Work