blood offering
Sacred crimson gift
A blood offering is a sacrifice involving the shedding of blood, typically an animal killed as part of religious ritual.
Ancient and traditional religions worldwide practiced blood offerings to appease gods, seal covenants, or atone for wrongdoing.
The term appears in historical and anthropological contexts, and sometimes metaphorically for any costly sacrifice: The project demanded a blood offering from everyone involved.
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- sacred ritualCeremonial act with religious significance
- altarSacred ritual table
- bloodlettingTherapeutic withdrawal of fluid
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- offeringsoblations, libations, oblation, libation, firstfruits
- Norse ritualsblot, animal sacrifice, fertility rite, winter nights, rune magic
- Roman religionJupiter, Mars, Venus, Apollo, Neptune
- MithraismMithras, mystery cult, pater, torchbearers, cave temples
blood offeringincense offering
Ritual burning of aromatics
libation · bread offering · flower offering · incense · drink offering
blood offeringprayer
Address to deity
meditation · hymn singing · fasting · pilgrimage · charitable giving
blood offeringprayer
Address to deity
incense · praise · hymn · meditation · thanksgiving
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