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Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans as part of a ritual, which is usually intended to please or appease gods, a human ruler, an authoritative/priestly figure or spirits of dead ancestors, and/or as a retainer sacrifice, wherein a monarch's servants are killed in order for them to continue to
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See moreHuman sacrifice (sometimes called ritual murder), has been practiced on a number of different occasions and in many different cultures. The various rationales behind human sacrifice are the same that motivate religious
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See moreAncient Near East
Successful agricultural cities had already emerged in the Near East by the Neolithic, some protected behind stone walls. Jericho is...
See moreIn Greek polytheism, Tantalus was condemned to Tartarus for eternity for the human sacrifice of his son Pelops.
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See moreAbrahamic religions
Many traditions of Abrahamic religions such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam consider that God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son to examine obedience of Abraham to His commands. To prove his obedience, Abraham...
See moreRitual killings perpetrated by individuals or small groups within a society that denounces them as simple murder are difficult to classify as either "human sacrifice" or mere pathological homicide because they lack the societal integration of sacrifice
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See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license Human sacrifice was common in many parts of Mesoamerica, so the rite was nothing new to the Aztecs when they arrived at the Valley of Mexico, nor was it something unique to pre-Columbian Mexico. Other Mesoamerican cultures, such as the Purépechas and Toltecs, and the Maya performed sacrifices as well and from archaeological evidence, it probably existed since the time of the Olmecs(…
Wikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA licenseHuman sacrifice in Maya culture - Wikipedia