Votive Offerings and Libations
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- Created on: 14-02-19 17:32
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2. What does the VO record/show?
- Power of the Greeks
- Reciporcal relationship that anicent Greeks had with their Gods
- Money
- Greek devotion
3. What was a VO the result of
- A vow by an individual or a community to one or more Gods and was not prescribed by a ritual (as for e.g. during a festival where certain sacrifices were regularly made in a particular manner)
- A liquid offering
- Poured to the Olympian Gods. Offering of wine/water/honey/milk. Liquid poured carefully and slowly. Help of the Gods then requested.
4. E.g. of libations during travel
- Before I drive
- Choe before I go to the Olympics
- Spondai was often poured for sailors embarking upon a voyage or for soldiers setting out to battle.
- Before I fly
5. VO - e.g. - prize winners
- Prize winners/successful warriors offered their prizes/weapons that helped achieve their victory
- A vow by an individual or a community to one or more Gods and was not prescribed by a ritual (as for e.g. during a festival where certain sacrifices were regularly made in a particular manner)
- Chariot
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