food offerings
Gifts for deities
Food offerings are items of food presented as gifts, typically in religious or spiritual contexts.
People leave food offerings at shrines, altars, or graves to honor deities, ancestors, or spirits: The temple was filled with food offerings of fruit and rice.
In secular use, food offerings simply means what food is available: The restaurant's food offerings include both Thai and Vietnamese dishes.
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
- altarSacred ritual table
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- templeSacred worship structure
- temple groundsArea surrounding religious building
incense · libation · sacred meal · feast · ritual feast · harvest · harvest festival · gratitude · prayers · ancestors · gods · shrine · ceremony · devotion · fruits · grain · wine · burnt
- Dia de los Muertosofrenda, calavera, sugar skull, sugar skulls, marigolds
- burial goodsgrave goods, burial goods, burial urn, funeral urn, funerary urn
- grave goodsamulet, beads, bracelet, bracelets, bronze sword
- Hindu cuisineghee, dal, chapati, roti, puri
- offeringsoblations, libations, oblation, libation, firstfruits
- religious ritualspuja, darshan, aarti, incense burning, prostration
food offeringssacrilege
Violation of the hallowed
desecration · fasting · abstinence · profanation · blasphemy
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