Sentence examples for religious offering from inspiring English sources

Cocoa was a health elixir, religious offering, aphrodisiac, that offered wisdom and power to those who drank its seed.

They would toss sweets from the boat as a religious offering.

A small pot beneath the stela probably accommodated a religious offering that could be burned.

Will she be seeking retaliation for having her surrogate skin pierced as a religious offering on the eve of Mr. Grove's arrival?

Various drawings depict "the manufacturing of pottery and wine, making religious offering, musical performances, boats sailing, the manufacturing of the funerary furniture, and hunting," according to Egypt Today.

In many schools the religious offering became nondenominational, and in areas of high non-Christian immigrant population consideration might be given to alternative religious provisions.

Mathematicians frequently hung their often lavishly decorated tablets in temples and shrines as religious offerings.

They served as religious offerings, gifts from which karmic returns were expected.

After asking around and witnessing a few Hindu rituals, he learned that the items were religious offerings.

The waters there are not nearly as dirty as the Ganges, which is thick with factory runoff, untreated sewage and, of course, religious offerings.

Religious offerings, especially of the firstborn, are known from the Bible, as well as from the histories of Egypt, Greece, and Rome.