Animal sacrifice is the ritual killing and offering of an animal to appease or maintain favor with a divine agency such as Yahweh or Allah. Such forms of sacrifice are practiced within many non-spiritual and non-divine religions around the world and have appeared historically in almost all cultures, including those of the Sumerians, Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, Germanics, Celts, Aztecs, and Mayans. Remnants of ancient animal sacrifice can also be found in various contemporary practices, the apparos and she Chita of Judaism and ḏabīḥah of Islam, for example.
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 05:36:08 +0000
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