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A man pours out a libation as depicted on an Attic terracotta cup. A libation is an offering involving the ritual pouring out of a liquid. In ancient Greece, such libations most commonly consisted of watered down wine, but also sometimes of pure wine, honey, olive oil, water or milk. [1]
Ancient Egyptian wooden stela depicting Lady Djedkhonsuiwesankh giving offerings of food, drink, and flowers to Re-Horakhty. The ancient Egyptians performed rituals focussed on making offerings of food, drink, clothing and ointment, to a deity. [1] Offerings commonly took place in temples everyday by groups of priests acting on behalf of the ...
The choai, or libation, and the haimacouria, or blood propitiation were two types of offerings. The choai dates back to Minoan times. [ 8 ] Since there is a complete absence of any references of animal sacrifices on Attic lêkythoi , this provides the grounds for inferring that the practice as conducted on behalf of ordinary dead was at least ...
This is a list of portraiture offerings with Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. The two major uses of Egyptian language hieroglyph offerings are the wall reliefs, and statuary; minor uses might be thought of as minor statues, charms, or amulets. Many of the sphinx statues are shown with an offering vessel.
In the primitive Arcadian myth, Poseidon, the river spirit of the underworld, appears as a horse (Poseidon Hippios). He pursues Demeter who becomes a mare and from the union she bears the fabulous horse Arion and a daughter, "Despoina", who obviously originally had the shape or the head of a mare.
that the skiron is a large sunshade under which the priestess of Athena, the priest of Poseidon, and the priest of Helios walk as it is carried from the acropolis to a place called Skiron. [267] During the Thargelia, a festival in honour of Apollo, the Athenians had cereal offerings for Helios and the Horae. [268]
Poseidon was the last one to suffer this fate before Rhea decided to deceive Cronus and whisk the sixth child, Zeus, away to safety, after offering Cronus a rock wrapped in a blanket to eat. [168] Once Zeus was grown, he gave his father a powerful emetic that made him gorge up the children he had eaten.
A statue of Neptune in the city of Bristol.. Poseidon is the Greek god of the sea and the brother of Zeus, Hades, Hera, Hestia and Demeter.Beckoned by the curse of Polyphemus, his one-eyed giant son, he attempts to make Odysseus' journey home much harder than it actually needs to be.