Classical, Celtic, Norse and Mesopotamian Devotional Rites

Devotional acts of the ancient and revived European and Near Eastern religions: the Greek libation of the sponde, the Roman lectisternium banquet for the gods, the Celtic sunwise turning of the deisal, the Norse sumbel toast and the Akkadian hand-raising prayer shuilla. A ritual belongs here when its cited article describes a devotional rite of a Greek, Roman, Celtic, Norse or Mesopotamian tradition. It excludes sacrifices and funerary rites.