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	A History of Human Sacrifice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		There is evidence that human sacrifice still continues today in isolated parts of the world, and researchers have known cases where it is practiced by shamans on behalf of people - including cocaine traffickers - seeking to avert natural disasters or to improve their wealth.
		Sacrifice upon the death of a king, high priest or great leader; the sacrifices were to serve or accompany the deceased leader in the next life.
		Human sacrifices were made in the Bronze age Celtic religions in Europe, and in rituals related to worship of Norse gods (modern Ásatrú and Druidism do not condone such practices).
	www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/archive/oldnews5/humansacrifice.htm (1884 words)

	Human sacrifice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sacrifice upon the death of a king, high priest or great leader; the sacrifices were to serve or accompany the deceased leader in the next life.
		According to Pliny the Elder, human sacrifice was abolished by a senatorial decree in 97 BCE.
		In the ancient Near East, human sacrifice was suppressed throughout the Persian Empire, partly as a consequence of the spread of Zoroastrianism, which taught that human sacrifice was a sign of Ahriman, not of the Wise Lord Ahura Mazda.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_sacrifice (3137 words)

	Human sacrifice in Aztec culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For millennia, the practice of human sacrifice was widespread in Mesoamerican and South American cultures (during the Inca Empire).
		What distinguished Mexica human sacrifice from these was the sheer scale of the carnage, the importance with which it was embedded in everyday life, and the political function it served.
		Human sacrifice perpetuated the myth of invincibility that surrounded the Mexica army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Aztec_culture (4376 words)

	Human Sacrifice
		Human sacrifice is more or less defined here as the ritual killing of a person to appease or coerce a god figure.
		In the Middle East, the traditional human sacrifice was usually accomplished with a blade, and the blood of the sacrificed individual was collected as part of the ritual.
		Interestingly, the civil rights movement has not stepped in to defend the right of worshippers to sacrifice as they choose, despite the fact that the West's most popular religion is based around what was arguably the most spectacular human sacrifice in history.
	www.rotten.com /library/death/human-sacrifice (1329 words)

	Human Sacrifice and Suicide Cults
		Human victims were required for at least three types of sacrifices: for enduring wealth and immortality, for the fulfillment of vows, and for establishing buildings.
		Human sacrifice was being continued in large scale in India until the nineteenth century, at that time the British banned it.
		Another common form of human sacrifice was the rite was to bury adults and children in the foundation of some of the new buildings or even under gates and bridges.
	personal.monm.edu /EDAVIS/human_sacrifice_and_suicide_cult.htm (6345 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sacrifice
		To the latter was opposed the bloody sacrifice (thysia, victima).
		The independent sacrifice of incense alone requires another explanation; this is supplied by the fragrant odour, which symbolizes either the sweetness of the ascending offering of prayer or the gracious acceptance of the sacrifice by the Deity.
		Sacrifice in the sense of offering gifts to the Deity, the symbolic replacing of human life by an animal, the idea of expiation, etc., are declared to belong to a much later period of the history of sacrifice.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13309a.htm (13314 words)

	Strange Horizons Articles: The Logic of Sacrifice, by Marie Brennan
		Human sacrifice tends to serve one simple purpose in fantasy novels: to indicate that the society practicing it is barbaric and/or evil.
		But human sacrifice (in the sense of ritualized killing—the sacrifice of lives in war, for example, is another matter) has been practiced in a number of real-world human societies, where the entire population was made up of real people, rather than the one-dimensional caricatures bent on slaughter that populate so many fantasy novels.
		For example, the sacrifice for the Aztec veintena festival of Ochpanitzli had to be a woman, who was consecrated as the goddess Toci and ritually honored as the embodiment of the deity before being killed; a man could not be substituted in her place.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2004/20041206/logic-sacrif-a.shtml (2821 words)

	Human Sacrifice - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Human Sacrifice - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Human Sacrifice, the ritual killing of humans in religious or cultural ceremony.
		Human Sacrifice : human sacrifice in the Americas : Incas: Peruvian Mummification
	encarta.msn.com /Human_Sacrifice.html (111 words)

	PARANOIA - Is War a Ritual Human Sacrifice?
		Indeed, human sacrifice was prevalent in many societies prior to the Common Era, including in the form of warfare, crusades, pogroms, inquisitions, ad nauseam, often purported by their orchestrators to serve the purpose of "obeying," "worshipping" or "propitiating" "God" in some way or another.
		The practice of human sacrifice, found worldwide, appears to have been a result of cataclysms that caused the survivors to believe that the earth, God or some other entity desired flesh and blood, such that he/she/it had caused the calamity to get his/her/its fill.
		Humanity is shocked at the recital of the horrid cruelties which they committed in the cities of Egypt, of Cyprus, and of Cyrene, where they dwelt in treacherous friendship with the unsuspecting natives...
	www.paranoiamagazine.com /warritual.html (3251 words)

	1- Gundestrup Cauldron (2- 3C BCE) - Style La Tene - Himmerland, Gundestrup
		Human Sacrifice is a fascinating and alluring topic to research and study about in ancient cultures, but may also be an unbelievable and skeptical topic for many as well.
		Human Sacrifice can be viewed in two different ways, and was probably by the Celts as well depending on the circumstance that brought forth the sacrificial event or ceremony.
		Human sacrifices were sometimes made to this god to insure a successful battle, and the proper way in which human offerings were rewarded to Teutates were through drowning the victims.
	gallery.sjsu.edu /sacrifice/celt.html (4321 words)

	Vampire Moon: APEC Report: Human Sacrifice
		Since human sacrifice is universally outlawed, these rites are practiced in secret, and the ceremonies generally involve stealth and ambush.
		Human sacrifice was transplanted into the local third world superstitions, and flourishes today in "underground" religions.
		Nazism uses human sacrifice as an outlet for bigotry and narcissism, secretly performing rituals in which mass murder is the central sacrament.
	www.fright.com /vmoon/6_19a.html (822 words)

	Talismanic child sacrifice
		There has been a revival in talismanic child sacrifice, that is, the mutilation and murder of young children in the belief that this will achieve material gains either in the form of power or wealth, according to a report by the Anti-Slavery Society.
		It involves, according to the report, the severing of limbs and other parts while the child is alive, the pain experienced by the child augments or intensifies the potency of the sacrifice as the child's cries awakens dark supernatural powers.
		Human sacrifice of children was formerly restricted to Africa and eastern India.
	www.anti-slaverysociety.addr.com /sacrifice.htm (174 words)

	* The Death Penalty and Aztec Historical Precedent *
		Human sacrifice was performed for eminently logical reasons: to guarantee the continuing nature of human existence, to make sure the stars and the moon would come out, to protect against the sun going away for good, to appease the god(s) such that drought, famine, earthquakes and insect blights would not occur for the immediate future.
		Human sacrifice was performed at popular approval and consent -- it was a practice taken for granted and thought to be necessary.
		Human sacrifice in the Aztec world was conducted with a great deal of ceremony and solemnity.
	www.advocate611.com /Aztecs.htm (660 words)

	Aztec motives for mass sacrifice
		The Aztecs practiced human sacrifice on a scale which revolted the soldiers of Imperial Spain, a culture which in other respects was very similar to that of the Aztecs, as Cortes remarked in his letters to King Charles (Cortes, 1962).
		Yet, if myth admitted objection to human sacrifice, it argued even more forcefully in favor of the practice by making it the wish of the reigning gods of the cosmos: the three sorcerers had driven Quetzalcoatl from Tula precisely because he was against human sacrifice.
		That human sacrifice was a major part of Aztec culture is testified to by the many stone receptacles for hearts and depictions of human sacrifice in Aztec art.
	www.wynja.com /arch/aztec.html (4157 words)

	Ritual Human Sacrifice
		Animal sacrifice is much more common than human sacrifice, but both occur and are "pleasing to the Lord".
		Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will point out to you." (Genesis 22:1-18) Abraham takes his own son up on a mountain and builds an altar upon which to burn him.
		All human beings that are doomed lose the right to be redeemed; they must be put to death." I must admit that I am a bit confused by this contradiction, but it might only apply to slaves in your possession.
	www.evilbible.com /Ritual_Human_Sacrifice.htm (1607 words)

	Holy Mass - Holy Innocents: The Holy Sacrifice versus Human Sacrifice
		The second is a contrast between the sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifices of human beings.
		Our second contrast is between the sacrifice which Jesus made of Himself on the cross and which is perpetuated in the Eucharistic Liturgy with the present-day paganism which imitates the pagan sacrifice of children in the religions of prechristian society.
		We wish to speak about the Sacrifice of the Mass as the source of the graces we need to live lives of sacrifice ourselves, and to obtain for others the corresponding grace to live sacrificial lives.
	www.therealpresence.org /eucharst/link/innocent.htm (1950 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Indian temple revives 'human sacrifice'
		But in the absence of human volunteers, devotees at the Kamakhya Temple near the state capital Guwahati are using six-foot effigies made of flour for the rite.
		Steeped in secrecy, human sacrifices to the Mother Goddess Shakti were thought to have died out completely.
		Research shows that human sacrifice at Kamakhya was first revived 75 years ago, but was discontinued a few years later.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/1908706.stm (483 words)

	News in Science - Human sacrifice was rarer than thought - 22/07/2004
		Bronze Age ritual human sacrifice may have been rarer than believed, according to a unique study of ancient DNA from bones in central Europe.
		Bronze Age humans were most likely to cremate their dead, which left little in the way of bones.
		And that human sacrifice was not as frequent as previously thought in Bronze Age central Europe.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s1158845.htm (897 words)

	Human Sacrifice in Ancient Egypt...
		Human sacrifice is not generally connected with ancient Egypt.
		The earliest known example of human sacrifice may perhaps be found in Predynastic burials in the south of Egypt, dated to the Naqada II Period.
		The human heads on the tombs of Osiris probably represent a tradition that, when Osiris was buried, human sacrifices were offered at his tomb for this or for some similar purpose.
	www.thekeep.org /~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/egypt_humansacrifice.html (3144 words)

	Sacrifice
		Some anthropologists and historians have speculated that the sacrifice of animals followed a period of the sacrifice of humans as the vehicle of cosmic renewal.
		A human sacrifice, particularly as a foundation sacrifice, may serve as a spiritual guardian for the structure being built.
		From that point, the sacrifice could proceed as the ritual of death and dismemberment, with the burning of the plants to release the spirit-body and its component parts in the act of cosmic renewal.
	www.fhaoil-choin.org /sacrifice.htm (2112 words)

	Minoan Religion
		Many of the human figurines from peak sanctuaries are in fact individual human limbs or parts of the body, separately modelled and pierced by a hole for suspension.
		The column or baetyl may therefore symbolize a deity or be a symbol for the palace of the king (as is often argued for the column in the Lion Gate relief) or for the shrine of a divinity.
		It is probable that this sacrifice is part of the funerary rites on behalf of the deceased on the opposite side.
	projectsx.dartmouth.edu /classics/history/bronze_age/lessons/les/15.html (6128 words)

	Discover: Temples Of Doom - human sacrifice - includes related article on meaning of human sacrifice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Human sacrifice has long been one of history's unprovable secrets.
		For the Aztecs, human sacrifices were ironically the stuff of life.
		Only human blood, they later told Spanish priests, could give the sun strength for its daily climb from the underworld.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1511/is_3_20/ai_54359911 (380 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 03.01.12
		The sacrifice to save the city fits too regular a pattern to be historical; youths given to monsters (e.g.
		The cult of Zeus Lykaios, where alone human sacrifice is repeatedly attested, is dismissed because excavation has revealed no human remains at the site.
		The book ends with chapters on the pharmakoi and the Locrian maidens, where the evidence for actual killing is almost non-existent, and with appendices on Pylos tablet Tn 316 (hardly evidence for human sacrifice) and on other cut marks and mass burials (mainly in wells).
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1992/03.01.25.html (615 words)

	On sacrifice - human and otherwise
		Your "bloodless" sacrifice may be, and probably is, the end point of bloody repression, exploitation, and a politics you'd rather not be part of and yet you can seldom extricate yourself from such a reality.
		The use of human sacrifice in a religio-magical rather than a purely magical context requires us to look at the point where the political impinges on that context in the form of the Right (or presumed right) of the State to determine the boundary of its constitutional citizens existence, ie.
		Yes, it is true human sacrifice for in the ritual discharge the normal potential of the sperm to instigate the development of a human shaped piece of biotech for a soul to live in, is turned to other ends by the Magician.
	www.whitedragon.org.uk /articles/onsacrifice.htm (2704 words)

	SATANISM - Ritual Sacrifice
		Whilst the evidence points to the fact of ritual sacrifice by the Friends of Hekate, little is actually known of their rites although they are believed to focus specifically upon the worship of the ancient Greek goddess Hekate.
		What is understood is that the ritual sacrifice was performed in honour of the dark and violent goddess Baphomet - the severed head being associated with her worship.
		The Church of Satan have approached the choice of human and animal sacrifice from the perspective of the amount of energy that it dispels.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/Satanism/00000016.htm (1434 words)

	Human Sacrifice in Judaism
		Though the usual assumptions are that Yahwehism, or archaic Judaism, was free of human sacrifice the evidence in the Bible refutes that belief.
		Actually, human sacrifice was seen as something so Holy and powerful, that even the sacrices to other gods was recognized as legitimate when practiced by gentiles.
		I do not believe this is the complete case for human sacrifice in Yahwehism since I only made a cursory search for evidence in the Bible and have not checked the Talmud or other traditions.
	www.angelfire.com /ga/ursamajor/sacrifice.html (1250 words)

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