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Ancestral vs Kachina - What's the difference?

ancestral | kachina |

As an adjective ancestral

is of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.

As a noun kachina is

a vaguely ancestral anthropomorphic spirit being, associated with clouds and rain or personifying the power in the sun, the earth, or corn (among other things).

ancestral

English

Alternative forms

* ancestrall (obsolete) * auncestral (obsolete)

Adjective

(-)
  • Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    kachina

    English

    Alternative forms

    * katchina, katcina, katsina

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A vaguely ancestral anthropomorphic spirit being, associated with clouds and rain or personifying the power in the sun, the earth or corn (among other things).
  • A wooden doll, as might be given to a child, which represents such a being.
  • A masked dancer who represents such a being in a ceremonial dance or masked ceremony.