ritual feast
Sacred communal dining
A ritual feast is a ceremonial meal with religious or cultural significance, typically marking important occasions like harvests, solstices, weddings, or holy days.
The meal itself carries symbolic meaning beyond nourishment—specific foods may represent spiritual concepts, and the act of eating together reinforces community bonds: The Passover seder is Judaism's most important ritual feast.
- banquetFormal celebratory meal
- sacred mealRitualized spiritual eating
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
- blood sacrificeRitual killing for deities
burnt offering · offering · communion · celebration · harvest · harvest moon · sacred · altar · libation · thanksgiving · breaking bread · gathering · tribe · tribal elders · ancestors · blessing · incense · high priest
- celebrationsgraduation, party, wedding, fireworks, birthday
- ritualsceremony, sacrament, blessing, prayer, baptism
- Indonesian traditionsadat, gotong royong, gamelan, batik, sarong
- Greek ritualslibation, libations, animal sacrifice, blood sacrifice, votive offerings
- tribal marriagebride price, bridewealth, marriage ceremony, tribal ceremonies, wedding dance
- Anatolian religionsun goddess, storm god, pantheon
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Moderately priced sit-down eating
quick bite · snack · fast food · midnight snack · TV dinner
ritual feastfast
Speedy, or skip eating
fasting · abstinence · Lenten fast · starvation · hunger strike
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