Cecrops, Athens’ first king, banned bloody sacrifices and reformed worship with laws, morality, and symbolic offerings.

In particular, its locale was supposedly an island with “a strong sense of community”, based on insular pagan beliefs ... islanders practising human sacrifice for a better crop of apples.

The danger of sacrifice was also manifest in the pagan practices of the time, which involved the abomination of human sacrifice. Judaism rejected human sacrifice, or, worse, child sacrifice ...

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Set against the backdrop of cricket but focusing on... In a suspected case of human sacrifice, a man murdered a five-year-old girl by slitting her throat and offered her blood on the steps of a ...

Such individuals and groups use a variety of terms to describe their spirituality, such as Odinism or Wotanism, but sometimes they co-opt other nonracist denominations such as heathenism, Asatru or ...

When he returned, he filmed himself stabbing a goat to death and drinking its blood. Invictus, a follower of the pagan faith Thelema, called it a ritual sacrifice and religious offering. His ...

Eid al-Adha is almost here. Translating to the "Festival of Sacrifice," the holiday is regarded as one of the two biggest holy days observed by Muslims — the other being Eid al-Fitr, meaning ...