#proper definition
- Ancestry — A blood relationship linking a person to their ancestors (parents, grandparents, great-grandparents); the totality of previous generations within a family. In a figurative or intellectual sense, it represents an overwhelming moral, political, cultural, or spiritual influence that someone exercises over a person or a group. In astronomy and astrology, it indicates the state or position of the zodiacal point ascending at the horizon.
- Astralism — An ancient religious, mythological, or philosophical doctrine stating that terrestrial phenomena, human destinies, and deities are directly determined, governed, or symbolized by the movement of stars and constellations; a belief system specific to major ancient civilizations (Babylonian, Egyptian) based on the veneration of celestial bodies as divine entities.