sacrificial offerings
Gifts to gods
Sacrificial offerings are things given up or destroyed as part of religious ritual, typically to honor, appease, or petition a deity.
Historically these included animals, crops, or occasionally humans; modern practice tends toward symbolic substitutes.
The phrase emphasizes the cost to the giver—something of value surrendered: The temple accepted sacrificial offerings of grain and livestock.
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- shamanismMediation between worlds
- oblationReligious gift offering
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