Except they ARE us. In the water we drink, the food we eat, the air we breathe. To separate that knowledge and act as if they aren't us? It seems silly to me. Just as silly as giving reverence to things still here with us and in us. I could no more worship my ancestors than worship anything else. They were tied to paradigms that make no sense in the modern sense culminating in the current "us", we're they're "finished product"... no more, no less. No need for reverence, IMO. Respect? Yes... to a degree. But then there's resentment, too as their out dated ideas and thought forms have no bearing on modern life. What's dead never dies, it just changes, becomes more and we're the more it became. For that, I thank them... but the way forward isn't the way back. We give them too much credit and yet not enough, lol.