21.   This happens because she has made an offering to Yemanja, goddess of the sea, to free her from her broken heart over Toninho.

22.   Typically, such offerings are made at a discount.

23.   Weeks speculates that the line of rooms were miniature chapels used to make offerings to many of the dead sons.

24.   While these gifts present logistical problems, they are a balm to a city aching with loss, and also to people who make the offerings.

25.   People knelt and prayed, made offerings of food and spattered fragrant water on the bones.

26.   Because his symbolic color is black, and his astrological number is eight, believers make offerings of eight black foods to assuage him.

27.   Because his symbolic color is black, and his astrological number is eight, believers make offerings of eight black foods to propitiate him.

28.   Catholics often make offerings of sugar cane and fruit liquors to saintly images in brightly woven Maya costumes.

29.   Followers make offerings to the saints or deities for help with affairs ranging from illness to romance, or seek to divine the future.

30.   Government officials said half a million sandalwood flowers were distributed to mourners at the Royal Field Sunday so they could make offerings for the Princess Mother.