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' His domain would be restricted to the group in which he was active when alive, hut if that group increased in size 'and power, becoming, with accretions, a clan or tribe or even a nation, so would the authority of the ' god ' expand and himself become a tribal or even a national deity; but such a one would have to-be endued with exceptional fame, for the· beliefs of backward peoples of to-day show that in general a man is not surely held to survive in the spirit-worldlonger than the memory .
Such belief in the living powers of dead men, expressed in its simple bareness, mdF seem to a son of modern Western civilization mere ignorant· superstition ; · but a · · similar outlook on the spiritual world is traceable in many modern· beliefs and has created, for example, un• numbered stories of the exploits of saints, both Christian and Islamic, though the educated Muslim is well aware that popular superstitions about auliya form no part of their true religion; in India Hinduism goes much •further,· always ready to· give generous play to the practice of deification.
period of Han. Among modern peoples of backward culture the transformation of the dead into gods is perhaps best seen among the Veddas, the most primitive inhabitants of Ceylon: the dead are generally supposed by them to become divine under the name of yaku, but there are exceptions, and in doubtful casesfuner• ary ceremonies are carried out to ascertain the event.