Strange offerings

[VoidCat]

I thought of this after reading @Spiderman 's thread on masturbating. What's the strangest thing you ever offered or done as a devotional act to a deity? I've heard some very strange ones. Like I've heard of folk who masturbate as an offering, some who give semen, tears from crying, dead roaches, banging someone as a devotional act, and even offering feces to a deity. The weirdest item I've ever given was a protection jar with one drop of menstural blood to a deity.

Edit after @Rival 's response technially most of these aren't strange unless you are from an outside perspective as it depends on the deity. For instance some deites are associated with sexuality and blood and of feces. So those could be normal considering the religious beliefs

 

[Spirit of Light]

I thought of this after reading @Spiderman 's thread on masturbating. What's the strangest thing you ever offered or done as a devotional act to a deity? I've heard some very strange ones. Like I've heard of folk who masturbate as an offering, some who give semen, tears from crying, dead roaches, banging someone as a devotional act, and even offering feces to a deity. The weirdest item I've ever given was a protection jar with one drop of menstural blood to a deity.

I have never done anything strange like those things you describe.

 

[Rival]

Semen isn't strange. Pharaoh masturbated ritually into the Nile as a fertility ritual.

 

[VoidCat]

Semen isn't strange. Pharaoh masturbated ritually into the Nile in a morning as a fertility ritual.

I dont think so either. Nor is blood. But from an outside perspective it is I guess

 

[VoidCat]

An act that some would see strange I've done(which isnt strange if you know it was to a death deity) is cleaning an animal skull covered in vomit and burying it.

 

[VoidCat]

Other offerings I've given both to Loki is a piece of trash, a squishy toy, and a stuff animal.. Odd but not that odd. After all it's to a mischief god

 

[Spiderman]

Burning bread and expired meat at a sober house with incense in a bon fire

I also pray for my Queen to be exalted Queen of Heaven and earth whenever i have a big bang.

 

[Eddi]

I have a friend who sacrificed his favourite home-grown tomato to God

 

[Rival]

I have a friend who sacrificed his favourite home-grown tomato to God

That's pretty sweet.

 

[VoidCat]

I have a friend who sacrificed his favourite home-grown tomato to God

Why not? Tomatos can be good.

 

[The Hammer]

Not strange IMO.

But I've offered my homegrown vegetables to the Gods.

I've also offered blood; I typically will prick a finger or two for this.

I've offered a drawing I made as well. All these offerings are usually ritually burned in a fire.

I've never offered semen, but I've used self pleasure as an aspect of a Magick work.

 

[VoidCat]

Not strange IMO.

But I've offered my homegrown vegetables to the Gods.

I've also offered blood; I typically will prick a finger or two for this.

I've offered a drawing I made as well. All these offerings are usually ritually burned in a fire.

I've never offered semen, but I've used self pleasure as an aspect of a Magick work.

Agreed none of that is strange. But it might be to an outsider. In fact nothing I listed seemed strange to me but I put cuz others might think so.

 

[The Hammer]

I have a friend who sacrificed his favourite home-grown tomato to God

This is a pretty common occurrence worldwide I think, just not so much in the West .

It's a way to give thanks for the harvest.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

Whenever I see an Oak leaf and an acorn, I place the latter on top of the former and say:

"Great Pan, be revived in that forest inside of me."

I call it the "Hoofprint of Pan" and consider it my own little offering to a deity I symbolically get a lot of inspiration from.

 

[syo]

What's the strangest thing you ever offered or done as a devotional act to a deity?

Deities don't need offerings. It's a completely useless act. Worthless. All deities are deists, anyway. Also, they don't need rituals. Our rituals are a circus full of clowns to them. Worthless.

 

[savagewind]

Deities don't need offerings. It's a completely useless act. Worthless. All deities are deists, anyway. Also, they don't need rituals. Our rituals are a circus full of clowns to them. Worthless.

Good. I shALL DO YOU ONE BETTER. (nevermind those big letters...a diety perhaps?) I think that a deity is such because he/she/it doesn't actually need* anything. If, in case, a diety might want something, then, never mind, you shall become its diety. OK. Peace everybody. Hell, why not?

* italics mine, all mine

 

[VoidCat]

Deities don't need offerings. It's a completely useless act. Worthless. All deities are deists, anyway. Also, they don't need rituals. Our rituals are a circus full of clowns to them. Worthless.

Of course they don't need offerings. Doesnt mean you cant make them if your practice allows it to show appreciation. As for needing rituals and such again they don't need them but rituals can show appreciation and help you as a person to set intentions among other things even if it doesn't affect the deity much. They aren't worthless to the person doing them. Don't mock other people's practices by calling their practices circuses full of clowns. Maybe that's how you feel about it but firstly you arent the gods. Second it just isn't nice to mock other folks practices. I wouldn't do that to you don't do that to me. Just say you don't make offerings you find it useless in your practice so you don't do offerings instead of mocking a person's practice.

 

[syo]

Of course they don't need offerings. Doesnt mean you cant make them if your practice allows it to show appreciation. As for needing rituals and such again they don't need them but rituals can show appreciation and help you as a person to set intentions among other things even if it doesn't affect the deity much. They aren't worthless. Don't mock other people's practices by calling their practices circuses full of clowns. Maybe that's how you feel about it but firstly you arent the gods. Second it just isn't nice to mock other folks practices. I wouldn't do that to you don't do that to me. Just say you don't make offerings you find it useless in your practice so you don't do offerings instead of mocking a person's practice.

I don't mock. And I am not the Gods. All Gods are DEIST, of course I am not the Gods. And no, Gods do NOT appreciate, they are deists.

 

[VoidCat]

I don't mock. And I am not the Gods. All Gods are DEIST, of course I am not the Gods. And no, Gods do NOT appreciate, they are deists.

Ok. It came off as mocking. My bad.

 

[VoidCat]

@syo it is an interesting thought what you wrote. Gods being deists. Makes sense that you wouldn't make offerings as a result. I can understand that.