A group providing regular funerary offerings for the eternal well-being of the deceased and in hopes of partaking in the salvation offered by the deity. The mortuary cults of many peoples indicate that the dead were imagined as actually residing in their tombs and able to receive the offerings of food and drink made to them; e.g., some graves in ancient Crete and Ugarit (Ras Shamra) were equipped with pottery conduits, from the surface, for libations.