Ritual Foods of Folk Deities

Abstract

People considered rituals to be very necessary to get benefits in life. To get rain and grow crops, to get tubers, to have good hunting, to avoid natural calamities like storms and earthquakes, they performed rituals and prepared food for the deities (Vanamamalai 191). They provide all that. The ritual foods offered to the deities vary from place to place, caste to caste, religion to religion, agriculture, seasons, environment etc. In this article, we will see the role of food in the rituals offered to the gods by the people of the land.