Further Reading
- Practical Heathen's Guide to Asatru - Patricia Lafayllve
- Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness - Various Authors (Ibn Fadlans record is useful here)
- History of the ArchBishops of Hamburg - Adam of Bremen (Only a few pages of information)
- Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England - Rev. Cocayne (3 volumes, sample here is from volume 3)
music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
00:00 - Intro
00:21 - Where Do I Begin?
01:27 - Offerings & The Gifting Cycle
03:37 - Reconstructing Sacrifice from the Past
05:03 - Animal Sacrifice, Context, and Records
06:48 - Blood and Sacrifice
07:57 - A Reconstructed Offering in the Modern Home
08:27 - Incense Offerings
09:31 - Libation Offerings - Adam of Bremen
10:57 - Leechbooks, Offerings, & Christian Witchcraft
12:14 - Anglo-Saxon Law and Offerings
13:14 - Rituals from the Land of Darkness (Ibn Fadlan)
16:43 - Disposing of Offerings & the Environment
18:34 - Offering Playlist and Closing
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What is AnimalSacrifice? Animal sacrifice is the ritual killing and offering of animals, usually as part of a religious ritual or to appease or maintain favour with a deity. Animal sacrifices were common throughout Europe and the Ancient Near East until the spread of Christianity in Late Antiquity, and continue in some
cultures or religions today. Human sacrifice, where it existed, was always much rarer.
What is a Blood Sacrifice? Animal sacrifice is the ritual killing and offering of an animal usually as part of a religious ritual or to appease or maintain favour with a deity. Animal sacrifices were common throughout Europe and the Ancient Near East until Late Antiquity, and continue in some cultures or religions today
Human sacrifice, where it existed, was always much more rare. All or only part of a sacrificial animal may be offered; some cultures, like the ancient and modern Greeks, eat most of the edible parts of the sacrifice in a feast, and burnt the rest as an offering. Others, including the ancient Hebrews, burnt the whole animal offering, called a holocaust. Animal sacrifice should generally be distinguished from the religiously-prescribed methods of ritual slaughter of animals for normal consumption as food.
What is Polytheism? Polytheism is the worship of or belief in multiple deities, usually as a pantheon of gods and goddesses. In most religions which accept polytheism, the different gods and goddesses are representations of forces of nature or ancestral principles, and can be viewed either as autonomous or as aspects
or emanations of a creator deity or transcendental absolute principle (monistic theologies), which manifests immanently in nature (panentheistic and pantheistic theologies). Most of the polytheistic deities of ancient religions, with the notable exceptions of the Ancient Egyptian and Hindu deities, were conceived as having physical bodies. Polytheism is a type of theism. Within theism, it contrasts with monotheism, the belief in a singular God, in most cases transcendent. Important polytheistic religions practiced today include Chinese traditional religion, Hinduism, Japanese Shinto, and various neopagan faiths.
What is Sacrifice? Sacrifice is the offering of food, objects or the lives of animals to a higher purpose, in particular divine beings, as an act of propitiation or worship. While sacrifice often implies the ritual killing of an animal, the term offering can be used for bloodless sacrifices of food or artifacts.
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