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Español: Sacrificio de Isaac, escultura en madera policromada parte del retablo del monasterio de San Benito, en Valladolid, actualmente en el Museo Nacional de Escultura de Valladolid English: The Binding of Isaac , sculpture in polychromed wood, part from the altarpiece of St. Benedict monastery , in Valladolid ( Spain ), actually exposed in ...
Pichardo was born in Salcedo, Hermanas Mirabal Province, and raised in San Francisco de Macorís, Duarte Province.. He enrolled in the National School of Fine Arts in Santo Domingo in 1945, studying under José Vela Zanetti and alongside Clara Ledesma and Gilberto Hernández Ortega.
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De Landa notes that a common cause for temple sacrifices in many cities was the occurrence of "pestilences, dissensions, or droughts or the like ills". (p. (p. 91) In such cases, slaves were usually purchased and after a variety of rituals were anointed with blue dye and either shot with arrows through the heart or held on an altar while the ...
The Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza. The Sacred Cenote (Spanish: cenote sagrado, Latin American Spanish: [ˌsenote saˈɣɾaðo], "sacred well"; alternatively known as the "Well of Sacrifice") is a water-filled sinkhole in limestone at the pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site of Chichen Itza, in the northern Yucatán Peninsula.
Altar de Sacrificios is located on the Guatemalan side of the international border with Mexico, which follows the Salinas and Usumacinta rivers. [3] It is 80 kilometres (50 mi) upriver from the important Classic period Maya city of Yaxchilán and 60 kilometres (37 mi) west of Seibal. [4]
Sacrifice was a common theme in the Aztec culture. In the Aztec "Legend of the Five Suns", all the gods sacrificed themselves so that mankind could live.Some years after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, a body of the Franciscans confronted the remaining Aztec priesthood and demanded, under threat of death, that they desist from this traditional practice.
The sacrifice of the intellect (sacrificium intellectus, sometimes rendered in Italian, sacrificio dell'intelletto) is a concept associated with Christian devotion, and particularly with the Jesuit order. The original idea can be traced back to the Bible, in particular to Paul the Apostle's Second Epistle to the Corinthians 10:5. [1]