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Sacred food as offering

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Buddhist offering table with fruits, meat, rice, confectionery, flowers and candles at Bangkok City Pillar Shrine, Thailand. Buddhist offering table with fruits meat rice confectionery flowers and candles at Bangkok City Pillar Shrine Thailand.jpg
Buddhist offering table with fruits, meat, rice, confectionery, flowers and candles at Bangkok City Pillar Shrine, Thailand.

Sacred food as offering is a concept within anthropology regarding the study of food as it relates to religious ritual.

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Many religions have prescriptions about the correct preparation and cooking of food, besides the taboos about forbidden subjects. Many religions have special spellings for the food, which sacralize it and, therefore, who will eat it; but there are foods sacred by its inner nature. In Brazilian Candomblé by example, fish are sacred for their connection to Iemanjá, horns given the relation to Iansã. Consequently, those foods are considered offerings. This takes place in other religions too.

Examples

Some examples include:

In Mandaeism, there are multiple types of ritual meal offerings: [1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-515385-5. OCLC   65198443.


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