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Dying for the Gods

Dying for the Gods PDF Author: Miranda Jane Aldhouse-Green
Publisher: Tempus Publishing, Limited
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Explains "the nature of sacrifice in antiquity" and "different aspects of the subject: the notion of flesh for the gods; rites of fire and blood; the significance of defleshing heads and of skulls; suffocation ... ; the selection of victims and the evidence for the sacrifice of children." Author "puts forward some reasons for ritual murder and shows how" certain practices "illustrate the importance of place in the sacrificial rite" and "highlights the essential role of the priesthood in sacrificial murder."--Jacket.