Home›Sacrificial Rituals›Practice Status›Living tradition, practised todayBrowse ByLiving tradition, practised todayThis page groups rituals by whether they are still actively performed today. Wikipedia notes that "rituals appeal to tradition and are generally continued to repeat historical precedent, religious rite, mores, or ceremony accurately." Browsing this way lets a visitor tell a living rite apart from one preserved only in historical description.FactsLearn MoreLiving tradition, practised todaySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedRites in which something is given up by a prescribed procedure to a recipient the tradition names - an animal, grain, ghee, a substitute. The one English word covers acts with no common mechanism: a Vedic oblation poured into fire, a Norse blot and an Islamic qurbani whose meat is distributed to the poor answer to different accounts of what the giving does. 2OriginsWhose Classification This IsWell-attestedThe comparative category was built by successive theorists - Tylor's gift theory, Robertson Smith's communion, Hubert and Mauss's essay of 1898, later Girard and Burkert - each generalising from a different tradition. No one theory has been accepted as covering the field, and the category holds only loosely. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedRituals 1StatusStanding as a Comparative CategoryWell-attestedUsed, but its validity as a comparative category is disputed 2Learn MoreThe sacrificial rituals This group gathers sacrificial rituals, the rites of offering, in which something of value (food, drink, animal or symbol) is given to the divine, whether in thanksgiving, petition, atonement or communion. Sacrifice is among the most ancient and widespread forms of religious act. The browser will find sacrificial rituals from across the traditions. The entries describe each rite's form and meaning, noting the tradition that performs it and the purpose the offering serves.Living tradition, practised todayFilter Results4 entriesAddressed ToAllAgni (2)Origin Period Start YearAll1392 (1)Unesco StatusAllInscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (1)FrequencyAllAnnual (2)As the occasion requires (1)Several times a day (1)Closed Practice StatusAllClosed ceremonial knowledge, described but not reproduced (1)Partly restricted: some elements are closed to outsiders (2)ObligationAllOptional and voluntary (1)Scholarly StandingAllA standard analytic category in the study of religion (4)Social FormAllPerformed by a gathered group (1)PractitionerAllHouseholders, those living in the world (2)Trained or authorised specialists (2)Native To RegionAllIndian Subcontinent (1)Korea (1)Holds ElementAllFire (1)Originated InAllIndian Subcontinent (1)Korea (1)North America (1)Originates In LanguageAllClassical Chinese (1)Vedic Sanskrit (2)Kind of ritualAllChinese and Korean State Ancestral Sacrifices (1)Indigenous Sacrificial Ceremonies and Sacred Games (1)Vedic Sacrificial Rites (2)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 4AgnicayanaLiving tradition, practised todayAgnihotraLiving tradition, practised todayJongmyo JeryeLiving tradition, practised todaySun DanceLiving tradition, practised todaySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Encyclopedia of Religiontier 1Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005s.v. SacrificeView the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.