The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia describes how Canaanites honored the departed spirit as part of ancestor worship: “Feasts... were celebrated in the family tomb or at burial mounds with ritual drunkenness and sexuality (possibly involving incest) in which the deceased were thought to participate. ”
और लैंगिक कार्य करते थे (शायद परिवार के सदस्य भी आपस में लैंगिक संबंध रखते थे) और उनका मानना था कि मरे हुए भी इसमें भाग ले रहे हैं । ”