sacrificial rites
Ritual blood offerings
Sacrificial rites are religious ceremonies involving offerings to a deity or supernatural power—often the killing of an animal, and in some traditions, a human.
The offering is destroyed, burned, or consumed to secure divine favor, atonement, or cosmic balance.
The temple priests performed sacrificial rites at the spring equinox.
Many ancient cultures practiced such rituals; modern usage is often historical or metaphorical.
- oblationReligious gift offering
- hecatombGreat public sacrifice
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- ritual killingCeremonial taking of life
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
worship · consecration · high priest · altar stone · blood · tradition · offering · ancestor worship · immolation · lustration · propitiation · animism · prayer · sacred fire · bloodletting · scapegoat · slaughter · victim
- paganismWicca, pagan, heathen, polytheist, polytheism
- Ritesrites, ancestral rites, burial rites, mourning rites, wedding rites
- Arabian paganismidolatry, polytheism, idol worship, jinn, Kaaba
- blood loreblood rituals, blood magic, blood oaths, blood covenant, blood rites
- Temple sacrificessacrifices, burnt offering, sin offering, peace offering, drink offering
- Temple worshiptemple priests, temple service, holy of holies, holy place, menorah
sacrificial ritesdivine blessing
Sacred favor from deity
benediction · absolution · divine gift · blessing ceremonies · communion