Rituals Of Sacrifice
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Ritual Sacrifice
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Author : Brenda Ralph Lewis
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2007-01-15
Ritual Sacrifice written by Brenda Ralph Lewis and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-15 with History categories.
The principle of sacrifice is as old as human life itself. This book provides an overview of sacrificial practices around the world since prehistoric times. It also examines the reasons behind these rituals, and in the case of human sacrifice an attempt is made to understand the mentality of the 'victims' who often willingly went to their deaths.
Rituals Of Sacrifice
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Author : Vincent James Stanzione
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 2003
Rituals Of Sacrifice written by Vincent James Stanzione and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Religion categories.
Living and working among the Tz'utujil Maya people of Santiago Atitlán in highland Guatemala for some fifteen years, Vincent Stanzione has observed, photographed, and participated in their ritual and ceremonial life, which he describes with unique authority in this account of the continuities in Mayan culture from pre-Columbian times to the present. "This book represents both a confirmation and an innovation in the scholarship and field work about the religious imagination and rites of passage of Maya peoples. I know of no book that is as able to a) link the pre-Hispanic, colonial and contemporary religious practices of these peoples into a coherent narrative, b) combine anthropological/religious studies theory with linguistics and ongoing field work as creatively and c) illuminate the debate between models of 'syncretism' and 'transculturation' about a contemporary ritual cycle as Stanzione's beautifully illustrated work."--David Carrasco, Harvard University
The Strange World Of Human Sacrifice
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Author : Jan N. Bremmer
language : en
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Release Date : 2007
The Strange World Of Human Sacrifice written by Jan N. Bremmer and has been published by Peeters Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
The Strange World of Human Sacrifice is the first modern collection of studies on one of the most gruesome and intriguing aspects of religion. The volume starts with a brief introduction, which is followed by studies of Aztec human sacrifice and the literary motif of human sacrifice in medieval Irish literature. Turning to ancient Greece, three cases of human sacrifice are analysed: a ritual example, a mythical case, and one in which myth and ritual are interrelated. The early Christians were the victims of accusations of human sacrifice, but in turn imputed the crime to heterodox Christians, just as the Jews imputed the crime to their neighbours. The ancient Egyptians rarely seem to have practised human sacrifice, but buried the pharaoh's servants with him in order to serve him in the afterlife, albeit only for a brief period at the very beginning of pharaonic civilization. In ancient India we can follow the traditions of human sacrifice from the earliest texts up to modern times, where especially in eastern India goddesses, such as Kali, were long worshipped with human victims. In Japanese tales human sacrifice often takes the form of self-sacrifice, and there may well be a line from these early sacrifices to modern kamikaze. The last study throws a surprising light on human sacrifice in China. The volume is concluded with a detailed index
Rituals Of Sacrifice
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Author : Vincent James Stanzione
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Rituals Of Sacrifice written by Vincent James Stanzione and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Holy Week categories.
Rituals Of Sacrifice
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Author : Vincent James Stanzione
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Rituals Of Sacrifice written by Vincent James Stanzione and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Holy Week categories.
Living and working among the Tz'utujil Maya people of Santiago Atitlan in highland Guatemala for some fifteen years, Vincent Stanzione has observed, photographed, and participated in their ritual and ceremonial life, which he describes with unique authority in this account of the continuities in Mayan culture from pre-Columbian times to the present.
Human Sacrifice In Ancient Greece
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Author : Dennis D. Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11
Human Sacrifice In Ancient Greece written by Dennis D. Hughes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-11 with History categories.
Numerous ancient texts describe human sacrifices and other forms of ritual killing: in 480 BC Themistocles sacrifices three Persian captives to Dionysus; human scapegoats called pharmakoi are expelled yearly from Greek cities, and according to some authors they are killed; Locrin girls are hunted down and slain by the Trojans; on Mt Lykaion children are sacrificed and consumed by the worshippers; and many other texts report human sacrifices performed regularly in the cult of the gods or during emergencies such as war and plague. Archaeologists have frequently proposed human sacrifice as an explanation for their discoveries: from Minoan Crete children's bones with knife-cut marks, the skeleton of a youth lying on a platform with a bronze blade resting on his chest, skeletons, sometimes bound, in the dromoi of Mycenaean and Cypriot chamber tombs; and dual man-woman burials, where it is suggested that the woman was slain or took her own life at the man's funeral. If the archaeologists' interpretations and the claims in the ancient sources are accepted, they present a bloody and violent picture of the religious life of the ancient Greeks, from the Bronze Age well into historical times. But the author expresses caution. In many cases alternative, if less sensational, explanations of the archaeological are possible; and it can often be shown that human sacrifices in the literary texts are mythical or that late authors confused mythical details with actual practices.Whether the evidence is accepted or not, this study offers a fascinating glimpse into the religious thought of the ancient Greeks and into changing modern conceptions of their religious behaviour.
Ritual And Sacrifice In The Ancient Near East
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Author : Jan Quaegebeur
language : fr
Publisher: Peeters
Release Date : 1993
Ritual And Sacrifice In The Ancient Near East written by Jan Quaegebeur and has been published by Peeters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
The volume contains 30 contributions to the theme of Ritual and Sacrifice in Ancient Egypt, Syria-Palestine, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and South Arabia, ranging from early historical to Roman times. These are revised and sometimes enlarged versions of papers read at the International Conference on Ritual and Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East, held in Leuven from 17-20 April 1991 to celebrate the centenary of academic teaching of Ancient Near Eastern languages at the KULeuven. The papers are written in English, French and Germand and sometimes illustrated; by their diversity they reflect the richness of international scholarship related to Ancient Near Eastern religious thinking and practice.
Human Sacrifice
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Author : Jimmy Lee Shreeve
language : en
Publisher: Skyhorse
Release Date : 2015-01-20
Human Sacrifice written by Jimmy Lee Shreeve and has been published by Skyhorse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-20 with True Crime categories.
Welcome to the terrifying world of ritual sacrifice. Around the world, humans are being trafficked, kidnapped, sold, and enslaved for the specific purpose of sacrifice. Mass-scale migration has seen these gruesome techniques exported from the land of the Aztecs and finding their way to the United States, Britain, and many other locations worldwide. Voodoo priests in London have been linked to ritual murders, and not long ago a Palo Mayombe priestess’s New York City apartment yielded its grisly secrets. One New Jersey investigator says that sacrificial rites are not only going on today, but can be traced back ninety years in the States alone. Jimmy Lee Shreeve takes us on a nightmare journey, following the initial investigations of Scotland Yard into the murder of a five-year-old boy whose torso was found floating in the Thames in 2001, and traveling to Africa to unveil a grim trade of exporting humans for sacrifice. He uncovers the dark side of voodoo and muti magic, linked with a score of sacrifices and murders, and in Mexico, finds a devotee of Palo Mayombe responsible for torturing his victims and boiling them in a cauldron. Along the way, Shreeve brings his own brand of offbeat detective skills to the fore, providing startling conclusions to some of the world’s most horrific murders. Brutal and disturbing, Human Sacrifice takes us into the dark world of twenty-first-century ritual murder.
Flesh And Blood Interrogating Freud On Human Sacrifice Real And Imagined
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Author : Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-12-16
Flesh And Blood Interrogating Freud On Human Sacrifice Real And Imagined written by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-16 with Religion categories.
The horrifying idea of child sacrifice, and the offering to the gods of a beloved only son by his father is a theme which appears repeatedly in Western traditions. This book focuses on religious rituals of violence, imagined and real.
Terrifying Bone Chilling Rituals And Sacrifices
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Author : Kelly Regan Barnhill
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2009
Terrifying Bone Chilling Rituals And Sacrifices written by Kelly Regan Barnhill and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Human sacrifice categories.
"Describes a variety of rituals practiced by different cultures in the past"--Provided by publisher.