Gift Baskets
A gift may be peculiar of
Ritual sacrifices can be seen as return gifts to a deity. Sacrifice can also be seen as a gift from a deity: Lewis Hyde remarks in The Gift Baskets Gift that Christianity considers the Incarnation and consequential death of Jesus to be a "gift" to humankind, and that the Jakata contains a tale of the Buddha in his incarnation as the Cogitative Hare giving the ultimate alms by offering himself up as a meal for Sakka.