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Often appears with: sacrifice and ritual · prayer and worship · portioning meat to guests · hospitality and the guest · hermes and divine offerings · guest-host hospitality · animal sacrifice
Usually: narrative (1) · reverence (1)
Eumaeus prepares a sacrificial meal for the guest, burns offerings to Hermes and the gods, gives Odysseus an honored portion of boar, and settles into supper and rest as Zeus rains all night.
the swine they shut up to sleep in their lairs, and a mighty din arose as the swine were being stalled. Then the goodly swineherd called to his fellows, saying: “Bring the best of the swine, that I may sacrifice it for a guest of mine from a far land: and we too will have good cheer therewith, for we have long suffered and toiled by reason of the white-tusked swine, while others devour the fruit of our labour withou…