Cultural offering of beverage to a deity or spirit
Not to be confused with Libration.
For the album by Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, see Libation (album).
Buryat shaman performing a libation.
A libation is a ritual pouring of a liquid as an offering to a deity or spirit, or in memory of the dead. It was common in many religions of antiquity and continues to be offered in cultures today.
Various substances have been used for libations, most commonly wine or other alcoholic drinks, olive oil, honey, and in India, ghee. The vessels used in the ritual, including the patera, often had a significant form which differentiated them from secular vessels. The libation could be poured onto something of religious significance, such as an altar, or into the earth.
In East Asia, pouring an offering of rice into a running stream symbolizes the detachment from karma and bad energy.[citation needed]
A libation is a ritual pouring of a liquid as an offering to a deity or spirit, or in memory of the dead. It was common in many religions of antiquity...
Eumenides). The Oresteia trilogy consists of three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides. It shows how the Greek gods interacted with...
Taoist Libationers (祭酒 ) were the primary religious professionals within the Way of the Celestial Masters. They served numerous roles within the early...
phiale (Ancient Greek: φιάλη [pʰi.á.lɛː]) is a shallow ceramic or metal libation bowl. It often has a bulbous indentation (omphalos, "belly button") in...
nephalia libations, as in alcohol-free offerings. There is a documented history of honey-based libations (μελίσπονδα, melísponda), including libations of mead...
killer whale. The pointed end of the ikupasuy is known as the 'tongue'. The libation process is performed when the ikupasuy's ‘tongue' placed into a lacquerware...
her to order her daughter, Electra, to pour libations on Agamemnon's tomb (with the assistance of libation bearers) in hope of making amends. Orestes enters...
inscriptions follow a standardized "libation formula", a formula also found on a few other objects, primarily vessels. The "libation formula" has been much studied...
cultures today. Wine or other alcoholic drinks are often used for libation. Libation was part of ancient Egyptian society where it was a drink offering...
communicate with the gods and commonly took the forms of sacrifice and libation. Offerings were central to the worship of both chthonic and ouranic gods...
rites, and festivals. A libation is an offering involving the ritual pouring out of a liquid. In ancient Greece, such libations most commonly consisted...
modern meters. The word comes from the Greek σπονδή, spondḗ, 'libation'. Sometimes libations were accompanied by hymns in spondaic rhythm, as in the following...
The drink offering (Hebrew ְנֶסֶך, nesekh) was a form of libation forming one of the sacrifices and offerings of the Law of Moses. The Hebrew noun nesekh...
of daily life. Each home had a household shrine to offer prayers and libations to the family's domestic deities. Neighbourhood shrines and sacred places...
his left hand with a red stripe, whereas with his right hand he pours a libation out of a shallow bowl (patera) decorated with patterns in relief. Opposite...
Voltaire, Hofmannsthal, and Eugene O'Neill. She is a vengeful soul in The Libation Bearers, the second play of Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy. She plans out...
The "libation vase of Gudea" with the dragon Mushussu, dedicated to Ningishzida (twentieth century BC short chronology). The caduceus is interpreted as...
goddess of thieves, cheats and the underworld. She was propitiated by libations poured with the left hand. The poet Horace and the playwright Plautus...
BC) Artefacts from the Psychro Cave in Crete, including two serpentine libation tables, (1700–1450 BC) Bronze Minoan Bull-leaper from Rethymnon, Crete...
opposed to dependent servitude. "Liber" is also understood in terms of "libation", the ritual offering of drink, related to Greek "spondé" and English "to...
Later in the account Adam states that when a marriage is performed a libation is made to the image of Fricco. Historians are divided on the reliability...
and torrents of water collected there from the innumerable donative libations of the Buddha over the ages created a flood. The flood washed away Mara...
be related to the Minoan word du-pu₂-re, which appears in Linear A on libation tablets and in connection with Mount Dikte and Mount Ida, both of which...
sacrificed to obtain favorable winds to sail to Troy. In the second play, The Libation Bearers, their son Orestes has reached manhood and has been commanded by...
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