Human sacrifice runs through many of the traditions I study on this site: the Phoenician and Ammonite cults, Greek myths of Lycaon, Aztec temple rites, and channeled accounts that put its origin at the very start of human history.
On The Phoenician history, a fragment headed "On Human Sacrifice" explains the custom:
In the video The Phoenicians, the question of whether they really practiced human sacrifice is still treated as open.
In Greek myth, a human sacrifice brings on the flood.
On Ovid's Four Ages, King Lycaon's human sacrifice and cannibalism show the moral corruption of the Iron Age and lead Jupiter to destroy humanity with a flood.
On Christianity: Looeamong’s establishment, the early church targets human sacrifice, along with polytheism, for eradication by force.
In his view Cain killing Abel was the first human sacrifice, and temples and control systems spread from there.
On The Roman Empire created the Church(Vatican) he calls crucifixion a Roman method of human sacrifice.
For every page I tagged with Human sacrifice, see the Human sacrifice tag archive.
Ceremonies include sunrise processions up stairways with chanting, incense/smoke rituals (expelling smoke to the four quarters), rolling drums from the tower, and human sacrifice: a victim is bound to the altar, the High Priest slits the breast with an obsidian dagger, tears out the heart, and offers it to the Sun amid rapturous shouts.
He was used as the greatest human sacrifice of the Roman Empire — crucifixion was a Roman method of human sacrifice to their gods.
These creator beings demanded sacrifice — the first recorded human sacrifice being Cain killing Abel, which fed them exactly the energy they required.
He was used as the greatest human sacrifice of the Roman Empire — crucifixion was a Roman method of human sacrifice to their gods.
These creator beings demanded sacrifice — the first recorded human sacrifice being Cain killing Abel, which fed them exactly the energy they required.
They targeted practices like polytheism and human sacrifice for eradication, using force.
His actions, involving human sacrifice and cannibalism, exemplify the moral corruption of the Iron Age, prompting Jupiter to destroy humanity with a flood.
These creator beings demanded sacrifice — the first recorded human sacrifice being Cain killing Abel, which fed them exactly the energy they required.
Yea, I give thee origin of human sacrifice as thou hast asked.
The Phoenicians practiced ritual sacrifices and offerings, but there is debate over whether they engaged in human sacrifice.
Fragment 3 (PE 1.10.44=4.16.11)E) On Human Sacrifice.
David Gilman Romano and the team noted ancient literary rumors of human sacrifice in Plato, Pausanias, and Pliny.
I label it archaeology beside Plato’s and Pausanias’s sacrifice lore, not as a proven lab confirmation of human sacrifice.
Human sacrifice, particularly of widows, was practiced, reflecting a cultural belief in the afterlife that demanded the sacrifice of wives upon their husbands' deaths.
This belief underpinned the Aztec practice of human sacrifice.
They worship many gods and make horrific sacrifices, human sacrifice among them.
Human sacrifice was common.
Human sacrifice, though less common, is also attested in the worship of these deities.