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)
Electra
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In Greek mythology Electra, also spelt Elektra, is a princess of Mycenae and the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Famously, Electra and her brother, Orestes, attack and kill Clytemnestra to ave
Libation
…milk and honey. The Libation Bearers is the English title of the center tragedy from the Orestes Trilogy of Aeschylus, in reference to the offerings Electra brings to the tomb of her dead father Agamemnon. Sophocles gives one of the most detailed descriptions of libation in Greek literature in Oedipus at…
Electra meeting Orestes, c. 340–330 BC
Orestes, Electra and Hermes at the tomb of Agamemnon, lucanian red-figure pelike, c. 380–370 BC, Louvre (K 544)