These spirits of the departed are delighted with offerings rendered to them and take umbrage at neglect.

Believing also that the spirits can help or injure men they pray to them and make offerings to them.

From this we can understand the meaning and object of ancestral rites.

In these rites they honour and assist the dead as if they were alive still.

Food, clothing and money are offered, as they believe they eat and drink and have need of the things of this life.