Not everyone in Heathenry feels this way, and you'll see all kinds of different practices and diverse traditions. But they don't need to be "sacrificed" and can be given as they are. That doesn't mean these offerings aren't special. Gifts do not need to be made sacred, as the ones receiving those gifts are part of the same world we are. They might be "hidden" but they are there.
Some Heathens will use the word "Blot" to mean any kind of offering and some will use it as their word for "prayer" but in this context, it specifically means "sacrifice." Since the Gods live in a sacred and holy world, Gifts to the Gods (the thinking goes) must be made sacred before they can "pass over" into Their world.įurther, ancestor spirits, elves, land spirits and house spirits all share this world with us. What is the difference between a Blot and other offerings? Second, we are going to talk about modern Blot.First, we are going to talk about Blot from historical perspective.We are going to talk about Blot in two ways. Blot is the ritual we use to make an item holy and thus worthy of being given to the Gods. Sacrifice is a ritual of offering a gift to the Gods wherein the gift itself is made sacred. Simply put "blot" is the Old Norse word for "sacrifice." To get through this topic, we are going to first define what Blot is, talk about what we know about Blot from a historical/theoretical perspective and then go through the kinds of Blot you will see around the Asatru community today. It can be intimidating to sit down and plan out a Blot. Southern), RNA (Northern blot), protein (Western blot), DNA-protein hybridisation (Southwestern blot), and RNA-protein hybridisation (Northwestern blot).ĭNA, RNA, or protein are dotted directly onto a membrane support, and form discrete spots.Blot is the most sacred ritual in Norse Paganism, the most important, and there are about as many ways to do it as there are Heathens.
The final step in the blot is to radioactively “tag” the complementary DNA (Southern blot, after Dr E. Because the DNA on the membrane is single stranded, it has a high affinity for its complementary strand. For instance, HindIII, from H influenzae, cuts DNA at all sites bearing the nucleotide sequence A/AGCTT at the mirror image sites on the 2 DNA chains between the 2 adenines A/A, resulting in a mixture of DNA fragments of varying lengths measuring up to 30 kD, which is then electrophoresed in an agarose gel and transferred to a membrane. Mixtures of biomolecule-DNA, RNA or protein-fragments are separated by electrophoresis through a polymeric (agarose or polyacrylamide) gel the separated components are then transferred to a membrane where they are immobilised, analysed and visualised by various techniques including antibody binding and DNA hybridisation.Ī technique for identifying the presence or absence of a segment of DNA in a sample the procedure begins by partial enzymatic digestion of nucleic acids, cutting the DNA at specific sites by any of a number of restriction endonucleases, each of which recognises and cuts at a 5- or 6-nucleotide sequence. Verb To perform any of a number of similar techniques used to analyse biologic molecules. blot noun A nitrocellulose or nylon membrane bearing a biomolecule of interest-e.g., DNA, RNA or protein-transferred to the membrane from an electrophoretic gel by either osmosis or vacuum after transferring the molecule of interest, the membrane is bathed in a solution containing a “mirror-image” of the molecule already on the membrane, producing a hybridisation. The American Heritage® Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2007, 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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