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Anthropology

wnylib

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4. Ritual sacrifices to the gods? Such sacrifices have occurred at other locations

Reply to rampartd (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:53 PM

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and times in human cultures. Some ritual sacrifices and cannibalism were associated with fertility rites in early agricultural communities of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean region.

If I remember right, I think that some Romans or Greeks wrote about human sacrifices among Celtic and Germanic tribes north of the Roman Empire.

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Sounds like warfare, or they cast some group as 'the other' bucolic_frolic Dec 15 #1

cannibalism is generally taboo rampartd Dec 19 #3

Ritual sacrifices to the gods? Such sacrifices have occurred at other locations wnylib Thursday #4

human sacrifice was certainly endemic in the neolithic rampartd Yesterday #5

Cannibalism was part of the fertility sacrifices in some of the wnylib Yesterday #6

that sounds reasonable rampartd Yesterday #7

Adding a link mahatmakanejeeves Dec 17 #2