Assertion: amaranth | /r/HasProperty | offering
Facets:
value: to the ingredient
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to the gods
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Amaranth was a primary crop not only important as food, but central to the spiritual and ritual life of Mesoamerican indigenous civilizations; its precious seeds and leaves were nutritious and therapeutic; it was an offering to the gods as well as the ingredient used by midwives to bathe newborn babies; it was mixed into a paste and transformed into miniature reproductions of the child’s future attributes: a bow, an arrow, the hunter’s instruments; or perhaps a flower or an animal spirit-guide.