Libation
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A libation is a ritual pouring of a liquid as an offering to a deity or spirit, or in memory of the dead. It was common in many religions of antiquity and continues to be offered in cultures today.
Buryat shaman performing a libation of milk
Egyptian tomb painting of a mortuary priest offering libation (1298–1235 BCE)
Libation on a musician's stele (332–284 BCE)
Libation basin representing the flooding of the Nile (2nd–3rd century CE)
Buryats
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The Buryats are a Mongolic ethnic group whose historical homeland is centred on the Lake Baikal region and areas of southern Siberia and northern Mongolia. They speak the Buryat language. Historically
Libation
…Buryat shaman performing a libation of milk A libation is a ritual pouring of a liquid as an offering to a deity or spirit, or in memory of the dead. It was…
Young Buryat women wearing traditional dress, 2020
Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1925
Buryats depicted on a 1933 “Peoples of the Soviet Union” stamp
Buryat ASSR in 1989