Starting the Gift Cycle (from VNS Episode 6)
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about how to start your gifting cycle with the gods and goddesses, and how to honor your ancestors. We also talk about the different types of gifts you can offer to your ancestors, and the different ways you can honor them.
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For those who may just be starting out in Azzatru, do you have any recommendations for
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how they would start their offerings to the gods and goddesses or to their ancestors or
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to the vaite seers? Is there any recommendations that you would have for them just starting that
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gifting cycle? Well, just starting, keep it simple. Put out, sit out something. It could even
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be, for instance, for Freyfaxi, if you're sitting something out for flavor, it could be the loaf of
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bread that you sit out, any type of food, preferably something that you've cooked
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yourself, that you've put effort into it. One of the things that I like to do when I make something,
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uh for instance the the hammer i'll save the shavings from the carving and and use that as
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an offering to symbolize the effort and this goes the same with you know with your your food offerings
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it's something that you've cooked your effort going into that is part of the gift
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when i first started uh out on in as a true one of the first things that i did i i like to write
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poetry terrible poetry um but writing a poem specifically uh for one of the gods or goddesses
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or to my ancestors i used to do that and then i would burn that as an offering because that was
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my creativity my work my time um the time spent trying to make the calligraphy perfect
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specifically for them we do also have members that will do woodworking specifically as an offering
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they'll do a carving for a specific god and goddess and offer that to honor one of the gods
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and goddesses as well. So there's always interesting ways. You just got to be creative
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about how you can start that gifting cycle with the gods and goddesses or to your ancestors.
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My grandparents loved coffee. They drank coffee from sun up until probably six o'clock in the
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evening. So I've always used coffee for them if I'm doing offerings with a morning cup of coffee
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or something like that awesome yeah you we look at it you know they are our our most distant
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ancestors so it's much like you know that gift that you get from a from a child that's had that
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handmade card you know it's all the more special than than something bought at a store yes definitely