Weirdest Offering?

[Brigid Rowan]

Im not sure where to put this thread, but hopefully this is the right spot..

If you make offerings to your diety/dieties...whats the coolest/weirdest/most fun offering you've ever made or heard of someone making?

[childofbast]

The coolest offering I've made yet is a fabric doll that I spent some time on. I gave it to Brighid on Imbolc this year. The weirdest ... hmmm...

For Samhain, the local group decided to have a Greek-themed party. My job was to put together an offering plate of all the food everyone brought for the ancestors. I thought it was funny to offer a plate with feta cheese and grape leaves. Never thought I'd give something like that. Not that it was really weird... just not what I'd usually give.

I read about a fellow ADFer giving hot dogs during his or her dedicant oath.

I also remember reading about a druid making a replica of a Viking ship and just throwing it into a bonfire. Now that's just awesome.

[Tullip Troll]

offerings should be valuable, so something I've made usually or I promise time.


that being said we don't do cakes and wine, we do create and then throw to the fire if we actually made it for said god or goddess

If we don't burn it we bury or float it.

latley time being my most costly possesion right now, I dedicate time and keep to it. So if I offer 10 hours cleaning up the river bank or beach I do it.

[cheddarsox]

During the Days of the Dead 2007, I was alone in the house. I had the offrendas (we have two) decorated and covered with offerings for the spirits. I was in the computer room and I felt the spirits asking for Reese's peanut butter cups! I put some out for them, and the rest of the evening was very "spirited" and they gave me signs of their gratitude.

The other strange offering didn't start out as an offering. We were in the middle of desert out west, and I had to pee, there were no bushes or trees, but then again there was no one around to see, so we pulled over and I went and squatted at the roadside, and the pink earth not only accepted my urine, but drank it in like a thirsty thing. And I realized that my pee was contributing something to that place, and that some plant, some animal (or bacteria, or something) would make use of it, that my chemicals would become part of the place. And it felt like an offering, because of how it was received.

Sometimes, when you see a host of butterflies gathered on the ground together, they are drinking in minerals where some animal has urinated. I've also seen them gathered on piles of dung, and carcasses, for the same reason.

so, those are the two episodes that come to mind

[Lupabitch]

Last time I asked Badger for help with job magic (yes, it does work) I took him out for sushi. I went to a sushi place, ordered a big sampler plate, and then invoked him and let him experience the taste and smell of the sushi right along with me.

[Brigid Rowan]

Last time I asked Badger for help with job magic (yes, it does work) I took him out for sushi. I went to a sushi place, ordered a big sampler plate, and then invoked him and let him experience the taste and smell of the sushi right along with me.


Thats totally cool!

[Brigid Rowan]

During the Days of the Dead 2007, I was alone in the house. I had the offrendas (we have two) decorated and covered with offerings for the spirits. I was in the computer room and I felt the spirits asking for Reese's peanut butter cups! I put some out for them, and the rest of the evening was very "spirited" and they gave me signs of their gratitude.

The other strange offering didn't start out as an offering. We were in the middle of desert out west, and I had to pee, there were no bushes or trees, but then again there was no one around to see, so we pulled over and I went and squatted at the roadside, and the pink earth not only accepted my urine, but drank it in like a thirsty thing. And I realized that my pee was contributing something to that place, and that some plant, some animal (or bacteria, or something) would make use of it, that my chemicals would become part of the place. And it felt like an offering, because of how it was received.

Sometimes, when you see a host of butterflies gathered on the ground together, they are drinking in minerals where some animal has urinated. I've also seen them gathered on piles of dung, and carcasses, for the same reason.

so, those are the two episodes that come to mind


Well, I love me some reese's peanut butter cups, so I can totally understand that as an awesome offering. :)

As for the urine ...I get that too. A lot of women bleed on the Earth during their period/moon time and consider it intensely personal and sacred.

[Brigid Rowan]

The coolest offering I've made yet is a fabric doll that I spent some time on. I gave it to Brighid on Imbolc this year. The weirdest ... hmmm...

For Samhain, the local group decided to have a Greek-themed party. My job was to put together an offering plate of all the food everyone brought for the ancestors. I thought it was funny to offer a plate with feta cheese and grape leaves. Never thought I'd give something like that. Not that it was really weird... just not what I'd usually give.

I read about a fellow ADFer giving hot dogs during his or her dedicant oath.

I also remember reading about a druid making a replica of a Viking ship and just throwing it into a bonfire. Now that's just awesome.

The Viking ship sounds cool! I'd have liked to see that!


offerings should be valuable, so something I've made usually or I promise time.


that being said we don't do cakes and wine, we do create and then throw to the fire if we actually made it for said god or goddess

If we don't burn it we bury or float it.

latley time being my most costly possesion right now, I dedicate time and keep to it. So if I offer 10 hours cleaning up the river bank or beach I do it.

Time is a great offerng! Its personal, and a wonderful gesture/gift to give.

[childofbast]

Here's a photo of the Viking ship, I believe.

http://www.muinmound.org/

[BlackLili]

My weirdest? It was after the fact, on the way home from the ritual. It was my passenger side rearview mirror. I still haven't fixed it because it makes me think of that ritual every time I drive somewhere. Eventually, when I have to have it fixed, it will be dedicated to Papa Legba, who provided the slapping.

[Whitewolf]

I once offered Set a beer. [It was a Budweiser]. I have no idea what he thought of that. Usually if I offer things to the deities, I go with incense. For Yule, I offered sparkling cider and poured it on the front lawn, for the nature spirits.

[Sethserpenthus]

By principle I offer whatever I happen to use. So on a regular basis I offer things like soda, condoms, school supplies, medicines, hair products, and various types of alcohol (What? I'm in college...)

[childofbast]

By principle I offer whatever I happen to use. So on a regular basis I offer things like soda, condoms, school supplies, medicines, hair products, and various types of alcohol (What? I'm in college...)

Condoms? LOL

[patch]

I offered the household spirits wooden food xD
There is a mushroon, some cherries, and an egg!

[NefertSatSekhmet]

I suppose the offerings most people would think of as strange are on my ancestor shrine... The shrine is in a cabinet and most of the permanent offerings for my ancestors are dollshouse miniatures. They have been offered bread and beer (complete with wooden barrel keg and pewter tankards), playing cards, a chess set, a rack of wine, a newspaper, a sailboat (someone requested that), a yule log last yule... along with a tea set, silverware and dishes to eat from, a table and a couple benches so they have some furniture... some other various things I am sure I have forgotten to mention. When I say the prayers of offering, I believe the miniature offerings become real full size items in the afterlife. I guess other people would think it a bit weird.

[Toki Wartooth]

Coolest = cheesecake. ...Because it's cheesecake.

[Brigid Rowan]

These are some cool offerings!!

Yes, cheesecake is inherently awesome.

I get the mini-furniture/offerings as becoming "full sized" in the afterlife. That makes sense to me that they are a representation and a symbol. Its a cool idea, one I may try.

[NefertSatSekhmet]

I get the mini-furniture/offerings as becoming "full sized" in the afterlife. That makes sense to me that they are a representation and a symbol. Its a cool idea, one I may try.

I have used this in my personal practice as there is precedent found in Egyptian Tombs. There have been artifacts found of model foods, miniature servants, etc... so I figure if it was done then, its acceptable now. (Other Kemetics have disagreed, but I don't care, to each their own.) And I definitely do not have room for full size offerings of the quality and variety I can give to my Ancestors in miniature!

[Sethserpenthus]

Condoms? LOL

Hey now the Gods need sex too :P

[Lupabitch]

Condoms? LOL

If you were in college and wanted to offer something obnoxious, there's always statistics homework...

[deadoracle]

well the strangest offering I have had placed on my alter I will admite wasnt my doing. My lovely spirited neice decided that the spirits needed her yellow crayon. Not any other color. I tried to take it to her and explain that the alter was a special place. To which she responded she knew and that the crayon must stay. I couldnt argue she was very convincing. its still there.

[coyoger]

most of my offerings go to creatures of the deserts. So when it snows outside I make sure to bring some in and place then on my altar.