Horse sacrifice is the ritual killing and offering of a horse, usually as part of a religious or cultural ritual. Horse sacrifices were common throughout...

The Ashvamedha (Sanskrit: अश्वमेध, romanized: aśvamedha) was a horse sacrifice ritual followed by the Śrauta tradition of Vedic religion. It was used...

further reinforced by the importance of horses in Germanic paganism. In Anglo-Saxon England, horse sacrifice was not restricted to social elites however...

Vaivarta Purana forbids the Asvamedha Horse sacrifice in this Kali Yuga. However, the perception that animal sacrifice was only practiced in ancient Non-Vedic...

In ancient Roman religion, the October Horse (Latin Equus October) was an animal sacrifice to Mars carried out on October 15, coinciding with the end...

journeying sun", and horses were deified and used in divination, but Celtic horse sacrifice is rare whereas horses were regularly sacrificed and buried alongside...

mutilations committed against horses and other livestock in 1903. Cattle mutilation Horse sacrifice Moral panic Zoosadism Horsetalk, Horse slashers profiled, 22...

traditions the reverse happens when it was sacrificed to the gods. In more than one tradition, the white horse carries patron saints or the world saviour...

and sacrifices of the Vedic religion include, among others: the Soma rituals; Fire rituals involving oblations (havir); and the Ashvamedha (horse sacrifice)...

Franks, who see the horse above all as a warrior animal, also sacrifice the king's horse to be buried alongside him. These ritual sacrifices are sometimes preceded...

for sacrifice (medhya); and this is why the horse-sacrifice is called Ashva-medha [...] Therefore the sacrificers offered up the purified horse belonging...

king or warrior. Horse cults and horse sacrifice were originally a feature of Eurasian nomad cultures. While horse worship has been almost exclusively...

23; October 15: the ritual of the October Horse, with a chariot race and Rome's only known horse sacrifice; October 19: Armilustrium ("purification of...

Uffington White Horse is probable evidence of ancient horse worship. The ancient Indian Kshatriyas engaged in horse sacrifices and horse meat consumption...

Life of Solon. It may represent some recollection of Indo-European horse sacrifice, such as the Vedic ashvamedha and the Irish ritual described by Giraldus...

Sauti, many years later, to an assemblage of sages performing the 12-year sacrifice for the king Saunaka Kulapati in the Naimisha Forest. The text was described...

between earth and sky, was regarded as sacred to him, as was the horse (horse-sacrifice was a part of his worship). Ülgen symbolizes goodness, welfare,...

performer of multiple horse sacrifices. According to one theory, Samudragupta indeed performed more than one horse sacrifices, as attested by the presence...

Olyosh and set to music by Alina Podgornova. Tishtrya Divine twins Horse sacrifice Queen Bee Meletinsky 1990 Devyatkina 2002 Paasonen 1938–1981 Meletinsky...

misunderstanding between him and a Pallava guard or at an Ashvasanstha ("horse sacrifice"), a quarrel arose in which Mayurasharma was humiliated. Enraged, the...

consecrated him as king and officiated his aśvamedha (horse sacrifice). It also states that at one of his sacrifices he did not employ the Kaśyapas as priests but...

the Ramayana, while describing the greatness of the Ashvamedha – the horse sacrifice. In the Ramayana, the Linga Purana and the Mahabharata, Ila grows to...

sheep, and horses are placed in shallow bowls over the human grave, smothered with ochre. Some have seen the beginning of the horse sacrifice in these remains...

Monikander, Anne (28 December 2006). "Borderland-stalkers and Stalking-horses Horse Sacrifice as Liminal Activity in the Early Iron Age". Current Swedish Archaeology...

significant West Asian influences on the material culture of the Sigynnae. Horse sacrifices, which were a typical aspect of the culture of the Pontic Steppe's...

son Janamejaya as a great conqueror who performed the ashvamedha (horse-sacrifice). These two Kuru kings played a decisive role in the consolidation...

Serbian: Lipicaner, Slovene: Lipicanec) is a European breed of riding horse developed in the Habsburg Empire in the sixteenth century. It is of Baroque...

Ashvamedha or horse sacrifice is a notable ritual of the Yajurveda. One of the famous avatars of Vishnu, Hayagriva, is depicted with a horse head. Hayagriva...

rejects animal sacrifice which is taught in the Vedas (such as the Vedic Horse Sacrifice). However, the Buddha did not reject all sacrifices. In the Aṅguttara...

veneration, worship, sacrifice, a sacrificial prayer, formula, particularly mantras uttered in a peculiar manner at a sacrifice". Veda means "knowledge"...