Re: Offerings for Deities By: Lark Moderator / Adept
Post # 7 Jun 01, 2011
You might want to start out by researching what offerings were made to specific Deities in the mythologies about those Gods and Goddesses.
For instance, wine or water are appropriate sacrifices for any of the Egyptian Deities. Or if you wish to burn incense as an offering to them you might want to stick to some of the incenses familiar to the Egyptians such as Frankincese, Myrrh, Cedar, or Sandalwood.
Greek Deities traditionally received burnt offerings..often those of animals. For instance, goats were a typical sacrifice for Apollo. Of course that's not particularly feasible today, so you might want to look at some alternatives. For Apollo you might want to make offerings of thyme and bay leaves. Wine would likewise be acceptable.
For Lugh typical offerings would include grains and beer. The Morrighan is fond of a few drops of blood in her honor. But for any of the Irish Celtic Deities I think a bit of beer or ale would be acceptable.
Still, it wouldn't hurt to do your own research in the mythologies and then talk to the Gods in question about what they might find an appropriate sacrifice.
For example, if a deity has a certain flower it is associated with, offer the flower. However, if after some research you are still unsure, apples are always a good bet.
Apples are known as the 'Fruit of the Gods' and are appreciated nevertheless. Im sure if you have a good connection to the particular deity they will realise your good intent, and realise that you mean it as a offering.
You do have quite a range of deities though, each mostly from different countries. On this case, I would certainly research before you offer for the best result.
For example, due to research I know that Isis has many symbols, one of them being the Sycamore Tree. So in this case, perhaps you could offer Sycamore seeds, leaves, bark, etc. Wikipedia, all though not all of the info is true on there, has some good results. If you type in one of the deities, it has a little profile for that deity on the right hand side of the page, and symbols is under it, so you could use that to guide you.
Re: Offerings for Deities By: Chaosxbliss / Beginner
Post # 9 Jun 01, 2011
Thank you so much for all the help guys.
I'm still pretty new with witchcraft so I could use all the help I can get.
Thanks again everyone, you all left very helpful posts.
try doing some research on the deities like for an example, bast. you will find information, that she is fond of things such as perfume and dance, music. these all can be offerings, also including, catnip, milk with honey, sweet food. do some research on them and for each specific one, you can find offerings that would work well with each.
these are egypt deity related, but i hope they help~
http://youtu.be/_1PZjCsTQJM
Well, I know Bast and Isis like perfume bottles. For Bast, she likes catnip. Sometimes, candles of specific colors work, too. For female deities, it might be silver and for male deities, it might be gold. Do some extra research and find what you can offer without spending too much.
Offerings are usually the best tasting foods of the era, in a book called Perseus Jackson and the Olympians, it highlighted it very well. It said they offered the best parts of their meals to the gods. So I would offer junk food and candy, remember, it might be fattening for you but it is still the best! Plus deities don't have asses... Physical... To worry about those carbs going to it!
