https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sacrifice Prehistory One of the altars at the Monte d’Accoddi, where animal sacrifice may have occurred. During the Neolithic Revolution, early humans began to move from hunter-gatherer cultures toward agriculture, leading to the spread of animal domestication. In a theory presented in Homo Necans, mythologist Walter Burkert suggests that the ritual sacrifice of livestock may have developed as a continuation of ancient hunting rituals, as livestock replaced wild game in the […]
Animal Sacrifices
Putting the Blood back into Blót: The Revival of Animal Sacrifice in Modern Nordic Paganism – Michael Strmiska
Animal Sacrifice and Blood Rituals in Traditional World Religions and in Satanism – Vexen Crabtree
World religions such as Christianity, Islam and Judaism all embody a traditional and sometimes bizarre set of animal sacrifice rituals in their holy texts. These practices, despite being borderline barbaric and not in keeping with modern ideas of animal welfare, are still in use today by religious communities all over the world, including in the most modern countries. Although it […]
THE CREATOR CONCEPT AMONG THE INDIANS OF NORTH CENTRAL CALIFORNIA – EDWIN M. LOEB
Aztec Huitzilopochtli Myth and Revelation of Huitzilopochtli – Mark Cartwright
Huitzilopochtli (pron. Huit-zi-lo-pocht-li) or ‘Hummingbird of the South’ or ‘Blue Hummingbird on the Left’ was one of the most important deities in the Aztec pantheon and for the Méxica he was the supreme god. He was the god of the sun and war, considered the patron of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán and associated with gold, warriors and rulers. His calendar name was […]