Historical Hellenic Offerings

pomegranateandivy:

I get a lot of questions about appropriate offerings for the Theoi. What should I give to the Ouranic Theoi? What do I give Khthonic Theoi? How do I know what to sacrifice to the dead? And while I have a few other posts where I talk about offerings, how to make them, and what you can give (1) (2), and plenty of posts that talk about upg(unverified personal gnosis) and modern offerings, I realized that sometimes you just want a collected list what the Ancient Greeks did.

So, while I’m not claiming that this is an exhaustive list, I spent a very long time putting together lists of offerings and sacrifices that I could find writing on. It’s broken up by Ouranic, Khthonic, Hero and Heroine Cultus, The Dead, and then lists for specific Theoi. This does not include any upg, or “modern” offerings; just historical offerings that I could find sources for. I tried to include the sources for everything, but there were a handful of things I couldn’t find again but I know I’ve read as being historical practices.

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