ancestral

But I cry now—for the first time in years—in the underground corridor of the Ghanaian underworld, all while the ancestral spirit of my grandmother protects me from a trickster god.

His guest slumped in one of the armchairs that faced the row of ancestral portraits in Lord Fredrick’s study.

The eyes of the ancestral portraits in Lord Fredrick’s study seemed to stare at her accusingly.

She sat on a footstool with folded hands before the oversized portrait of her late husband, Lord Edward Ashton, which hung in a row with all the other ancestral portraits that lined the wall.

It sounds like a marketing pitch and the company's slick packaging promises "ancestral ingredients" and the "power of purple fruits from the forest".