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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, public or jurisdictional demands for justice by capital punishment, an authoritative/priestly figure, spirits of dead ancestors or as a retainer sacrifice, wherein a monarch's servants are killed in order for them to continue to serve their master in ...
1024: Human sacrifice by volkhvy reported in Suzdal in Russia. [24] 1066: John Scotus (bishop of Mecklenburg) was sacrificed to Radegast, the god of hospitality. [25] 1071: Human sacrifice of women by volkhvy was reported in a Rostov village in Rus. [26] 11th century: Al-Bakri mentions sacrifice of servants during royal burial in Ghana. [20]
The sacrificial calendar of Athens is an Ancient Greek religious document inscribed on stone as part of the Athenian law revisions from 410/9–405/4 and 403/2–400/399 BC.
Human sacrifice was practiced by many ancient cultures. People would be ritually killed in a manner that was supposed to please or appease a god or spirit. Some occasions for human sacrifice found in multiple cultures on multiple continents include: [citation needed] Human sacrifice to accompany the dedication of a new temple or bridge.
Hughes, Dennis, Human Sacrifice in Ancient Greece, London 1991, pp. 139–165. Litwa, M David, 'The Pharmakos,' chapter 11 in How the Gospels became history: Jesus and Mediterranean myths, Synkrisis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019; pp.156-68. Nagy, Gregory. The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry.
In Greek mythology, the people of Athens were at one point compelled by King Minos of Crete to choose fourteen young noble citizens (seven young men and seven young women) to be offered as sacrificial victims to the half-human, half-taurine monster Minotaur to be killed in retribution for the death of Minos' son Androgeos.
It was also common to perform libation as a part of animal sacrifices, where wine was poured onto the animal during the leadup to its sacrifice. Also, once the animal had been killed and burned, wine was poured onto the fire. [3] Libations were also poured into the dirt, as a ritual to honour both the humans and gods who reside in the underworld.
In the Homeric poems, there seems to be a lingering cultural memory of human sacrifice in King Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter, Iphigenia; several of the stories of Trojan heroes involve tragic human sacrifice. In the far past, even human beings might be offered to placate inscrutable gods, especially in times of guilty fear. Later ...