0 an amount of alcoholic drink poured out or drunk in honour of a god or a dead relation
Would you care for a libation?
When they started the libation ceremony, the same night of the ceremony it would rain abundantly until the sacred stream started to overflow !
Older people are almost ancestors : they are about to join the honourable ranks of the matrilineal forbears to whom people pray and pour libations.
So why did he pour libation?
It is intended merely to make life easier and to see that libations are not removed altogether while people are pursuing other pleasures.
He has bought me libations on several occasions—perhaps too seldom to recall them all just now.
Ceremonial drinking includes libation, which, to many people, is worse than drinking, because instead of being drunk, the spirit is poured on the ground.
We hope that it will be accompanied by warm libations of water.
Each home had a household shrine at which prayers and libations to the family's domestic deities were offered.
