concept

Offering

Beliefs & concepts

A gift presented to the sacred as named doctrinal speech. Not sacrifice as the destruction-form alone, and not charity as horizontal alms.

Hellenic religion

  • Offering appears in Hellenic religion.

    The Iliad seats gifts presented to the gods — the peplos carried to Athena’s temple in Book 6, hecatombs and first portions burned or set apart. A named offering in that epic, not sacrifice as destruction-form alone and not charity as horizontal alms.

    from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Iliad · Homer

    Homer, Iliad.