page_title: Votive offering
section_title: See also
hierarchical_section_title: Votive offering / See also
caption_attribution_description: Szawle, Góra Krzyży
context_page_description: A votive offering or votive deposit is one or more objects displayed or deposited, without the intention of recovery or use, in a sacred place for religious purposes. Such items are a feature of modern and ancient societies and are generally made in order to gain favor with supernatural forces.
  Some offerings have apparently been made in anticipation of the achievement of a particular wish, but in Western cultures from which documentary evidence survives it has been more typical to wait until the wish has been fulfilled before making the offering, for which the more specific term ex-voto may be used. Other offerings were very likely regarded just as gifts to the deity, not linked to any particular need.
  In Buddhism, votive offering such as construction of stupas was a prevalent and holy practice in Ancient India, an example of which can be observed in the ruins of the ancient Vikramshila University and other contemporary structures.
context_section_description: Sin offering
  Anathema
  Devotional articles
  Fire worship
  Grave goods
  Pinax
  Votive candle
  Votive site
  Ralaghan Man
caption: Detail of crosses brought to the Hill of Crosses by the faithful
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