miwu: list of offerings for Sekhmet and Bast
[compiled by many sources]
Sekhmet:
- Sand
- Spices and spicy foods (cinnamon, ginger particularly)
- Frankincense, copal, and dragon's blood incense
- Raw meat
- Red beer
- Red wine
- Gold
- Bloodstone, carnelian, garnet, tiger's eye, hematite, jasper
- Large flames, fires in fireplaces
- Swords and larger knives
- Heavy dark velvet
- Red glass
- Mushrooms
- Warm milk
- Blackberries and raspberries
- Bright flowers
- Strong tea
Bast:
- Peacock feathers
- Chocolate
- Mint leaves
- Honey
- Items of copper and gold
- Perfumes (not the nasty artificial stuff!)
- Bells and windchimes
- Gemstones and semiprecious stones, in particular green/blue/purple ones; malachite, abalone shell, dark pearls, opals, hematite, obsidian
- Fountains, flowing water
- Glass of all sorts -- stained, cobalt blue, dark red, multicolored -- bottles, paperweights, prisms
- Baskets
- Jewelry, including body jewelry
- Flowers
- Red wine
- Daggers and swords
- Sheer fabric