guilt-offerings

Updated: June 29, 2025

Harvest rites tend to become feasts of thanksgiving and thank-offerings; and so, by contrast with these joyous festivals, the occasional sacrifices, which continue to be offered in times of distress, tend to assume, more and more, the character of sin-offerings or guilt-offerings.

F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons - The Idea of God in Early Religions