1.   Places, not just people, could possess a guardian spirit of genius.

2.   The annual festivals for the guardian spirits have been revived, complete with offerings, banquets and entertainment.

3.   There, silhouetted against the sky, stood two pillars called the Wigleeva, said to be guardian spirits.

4.   Altars to guardian spirits hang in restaurants and people burn incense in the shadows of the shining skyscrapers that glut this bastion of freewheeling capitalism.