human sacrifice in English

human being sacrificed in a religious ritual

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1. Anasazi cannibalism: social control, ritual human sacrifice, and social pathology

2. The rationale for Aztec human sacrifice was, first and foremost, a matter of survival

3. Did Jephthah have in mind making a human sacrifice when he made his vow?

4. However, the book Molech—A God of Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament, by John Day, observes: “There is evidence in classical and Punic [Carthaginian] sources, as well as archaeological evidence, for the existence of human sacrifice . . . in the Canaanite world, and so there is no reason to doubt the Old Testament allusions [to human sacrifice].”

5. 11:30, 31 —When making his vow, did Jephthah have a human sacrifice in mind?

6. Our proposed explanation for Anasazi cannibalism combines…social control, ritual human sacrifice, and social pathology

7. As late as the first decades of this century it involved ophiolatry, human sacrifice, and Anthropophagism

8. Hale's eyes stare knowingly at the viewer, a human sacrifice to an alienated and consumerist culture.

9. In Scandinavia, the old Scandinavian religion contained human sacrifice, as both the Norse sagas and German historians relate.

10. She may have originated with the notion of human sacrifice to ensure plentiful crops, for her actions were often bloodthirsty.

11. Human sacrifice is no longer officially condoned in any country, and any cases which may take place are regarded as murder.

12. We should remember this later when we uncover fairly grisly evidence for possible human sacrifice in the burial of mummies from Zaghunluq.

13. Some see the story of Abraham and Isaac (Genesis 22) as an example of an etiological myth explaining the abolition of human sacrifice.

14. Many Bible scholars have suggested this story's origin was a remembrance of an era when human sacrifice was abolished in favour of animal sacrifice.

15. At their central temple in Tenochtitlan, Templo Mayor, the Aztecs practiced both bloodletting (offering one’s own blood) and human sacrifice as part of their religious practices

16. The members of the circle engaged in regular Bloodlettings, chanting of incantations taken straight out of the Necronomicon, the casting of spells, and in a least one case human sacrifice

17. The prophet there apparently refers to going out “of Jerusalem to the surrounding Hinnom Valley (Gehenna), where human sacrifice was once practiced (Jer 7:31) and which eventually became the city’s refuse heap.”

18. Situated next to the inns and palaces of Andalucia and Castilla, the soldiers' barracks of Naples, and the dank Bagnios of North Africa were islands filled with "barbaros," gold, and human sacrifice

19. Situated next to the inns and palaces of Andalucia and Castilla, the soldiers' barracks of Naples, and the dank Bagnios of North Africa were islands filled with "barbaros," gold, and human sacrifice

20. “First, Moloch, horrid King, Besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents’ tears; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children’s cries unheard that passed through fire To his grim idol

21. The first to enter is Moloch, "horrid king, Besmeared with blood / Of human sacrifice and parents' tears" (I.392-93); followed by "Chemos, th' obscene dread of Moab's sons" (I.406)

22. Kapalika and Kalamukha, members of either of two groups of Shaivite (devotees of Shiva) Ascetics, most prominent in India from the 8th through the 13th century, who became notorious for their practices of esoteric rituals that allegedly included both animal and human sacrifice, though there is no

23. ‘It is understood that a Coven of witches was held at Rathcroghan Caves on the recent Halloween night.’ ‘He travels to a remote island where he uncovers a Coven of witches engaged in outdoor orgies and human sacrifice.’ ‘I wanted to join a Coven so I could learn the …

24. Based on this evidence, Grunfeld (1996) concludes that it cannot be ruled out that isolated instances of human sacrifice did survive in remote areas of Tibet until the mid-20th century, but they must have been rare enough to have left no more traces than the evidence cited above.