Sentence examples for oblation from inspiring English sources
The word 'oblation' is correct and can be used in written English
It can be used as a noun to refer to an offering or sacrifice made to a deity or a sacred cause. It can also refer to an act of self-sacrifice or devotion. Example: She made an oblation of flowers at the temple as a symbol of her gratitude and devotion to the deity.
noun
The offering of worship, thanks etc. to a deity.
One of the best descriptions of the nature and structure of sacrifice is to be found in Essai sur la nature et le fonction du sacrifice, by the French sociologists Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss, who differentiated between sacrifice and rituals of oblation, offering, and consecration.
Although all sacrifice involves the giving of something, there are some sacrificial rites in which the oblation is regarded as a gift made to a deity either in expectation of a return gift or as the result of a promise upon the fulfillment of a requested divine favour.
Among the African Yoruba special meals are offered to the deity; if the deity accepts the oblation (as divination will disclose), a portion of the food is placed before his shrine while the remainder is joyfully eaten as a sacred communion by the worshippers.
Along with libation and the sacrificial effusion of blood, one of the commonest means of making an oblation available to sacred beings is to burn it.
The communion sacrifice may be one in which the deity somehow indwells the oblation so that the worshippers actually consume the divine e.g., the Hindu soma ritual.
The meal may be one in which the sacrificial oblation is simply shared by the deity and the worshippers.
In ancient Greece and India, for example, oblations included a number of important domestic animals, such as the goat, ram, bull, ox, and horse.
When the flood receded, Manu, the sole human survivor, performed a sacrifice, pouring oblations of butter and sour milk into the waters.
They also discuss purification rites, funerary ceremonies, forms of hospitality, and daily oblations, and they even mention juridical matters.
The basic Vedic rite was performed by offering those to a sacred fire, which was itself deified as Agni and which carried the oblations to the gods of the Vedic pantheon.
Sacrifices performed according to Vedic rites continue to be performed in India occasionally, and the offering of oblations to a sacred fire (homa) is an important element of much modern Hindu worship (see yajna).
