Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to please or appease a deity, supernatural beings, or sacred social order, tribal, group...
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of the danger posed by witch doctors abducting for the purpose of child sacrifice. Witch doctors, who also identify as traditional healers, will consult...
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Tláloc (redirect from Aztec child sacrifice)
(24 March – 12 April) similarly involved child sacrifice. During this festival, the children were sacrificed in caves. The flayed skins of sacrificial...
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Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans as part of a ritual, which is usually intended to please or appease gods, a human ruler, public...
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archaeological records and in written sources. The exact ideologies behind child sacrifice in different pre-Colombian cultures are unknown but it is often thought...
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sacrifices were of young adults or children. The Phoenicians of Carthage were reputed to practise child sacrifice, and though the scale of sacrifices...
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Binding of Isaac (redirect from Near sacrifice of Isaac)
opportunity to teach humankind, once and for all, that human sacrifice, child sacrifice, is not acceptable. This is precisely how the sages of the Talmud...
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Punic religion (redirect from Child sacrifice in Cartaginian religion)
were buried. There is a long-running scholarly debate about whether child sacrifice occurred at these locations, as suggested by Greco-Roman and biblical...
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sometimes referred to as child sacrifice, though not equivalent to the religious variety. It may also refer to the use of children as child soldiers or saboteurs...
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sacrifice of every tenth child during difficult times. Many remains of children have been found in Gezer excavations with signs of sacrifice. Child skeletons...
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Moloch (category Child sacrifice)
that are associated with Moloch, which are heavily implied to include child sacrifice. Traditionally, the name Moloch has been understood as referring to...
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collapse unless the body of a human sacrifice was buried in its foundations and that the watchman is actually a human sacrifice, who will then watch over the...
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such as the bones of children sacrificed at the Tophet to the goddess Tanit in Phoenician Carthage, and also child sacrifice in ancient Syria-Palestine....
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A late charge of the imputed sacrifice is found by the North African bishop Tertullian, who says that child sacrifices were still carried out, in secret...
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Tophet (category Child sacrifice)
in a ritual involving "passing a child through the fire", most likely child sacrifice. Traditionally, the sacrifices have been ascribed to a god named...
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Tanit (category Child sacrifice)
pointing towards child sacrifice forming part of the worship of Tanit and Baal Hammon. Some archaeologists theorized that infant sacrifices have occurred...
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those who then exploit their bodies for their own purposes? Child sacrifice – the sacrifice (and sometimes consumption) of children in religious contexts...
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lies in the fact that the only written sources reporting the rite of child sacrifice are all foreign to the city of Carthage. As for the archaeological...
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Deuteronomy 32:17. In both instances, the text deals with child sacrifice or animal sacrifice. Although the word is traditionally derived from the root...
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Children of Llullaillaco (category Child sacrifice victims)
with the execution of the emperor Atahualpa by conquering Spaniards. Child sacrifice, referred to as capacocha or qhapaq hucha, was an important part of...
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Carthage (redirect from Carthaginian human sacrifice)
evidence they produced for child sacrifice. There has been considerable disagreement among scholars concerning whether child sacrifice was practiced by ancient...
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fought without clothing and perpetrated numerous atrocities, including child sacrifice and cannibalism. Blahyi abandoned his life as a warlord and turned...
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Ancient Carthage (section Human sacrifice)
sacrifice in the Levant remains sparse. Accounts of child sacrifice in Carthage date the practice to the city's founding in about 814 BC. Sacrificing...
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Aconcagua mummy (category Child sacrifice victims)
quinoa, capsicum, potatoes, and terrestrial meat. Before the child was chosen for the sacrifice, his diet was primarily marine-based. The presence of achiote...
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Sacrifice was a religious activity in Maya culture, involving the killing of humans or animals, or bloodletting by members of the community, in rituals...
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The Altamira child emasculations refers to a series of crimes that occurred in the municipality of Altamira, in Pará, Brazil, which involved boys aged...
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The Canaanite god Moloch was the recipient of child sacrifice according to the account of the Hebrew Bible, as well as Greco-Roman historiography on the...
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Human sacrifice was common in many parts of Mesoamerica, so the rite was nothing new to the Aztecs when they arrived at the Valley of Mexico, nor was...
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the Hebrew Bible, was subsequently published as King Manasseh and Child Sacrifice: Biblical Distortions of Historical Realities. Stavrakopoulou filled...
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Parricide (section Child abuse)
their parent/s to escape egregious child abuse was challenged in 1999 when Hillbrand et al.[who?] suggested that child abuse is simply only one variable...
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