Historical pagan practices have also included ritual animal sacrifice and utilized animal parts within ritual and magic. Traditional religions such as Christianity inherited their attitude towards blood and animal sacrifice from pagan origins, such as the way in which the Abel and Cain story was copied from the Sumerian story of Enkimdu and Damuzi6. Neo-paganism, the modern attempt at re-inventing polytheism, did not include any animal-sacrifice elements and modern Pagans are very animal-rights orientated and a higher than average number of Pagans are vegetarians and vegans …
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