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After the meal a monk later makes an offering of raw rice to the garden to complete the 'saba' ritual.
At death beings are reborn into 1 of 6 Buddhist realms. One of these is called the 'Realm of Hungry Ghosts' (餓鬼道)...occupied by people corrupted by desire, greed, anger and ignorance in life.
The saba ritual originated as food set aside to ease the suffering of these ghosts.