Animal sacrifice is the ritual killing and offering of animals, usually as part of a religious ritual or to appease or maintain favour with a deity. Animal...
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The practice of Hindu animal sacrifice is in recent times mostly associated with Shaktism, and in currents of folk Hinduism strongly rooted in local popular...
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Sacrifice is the offering of material possessions or the lives of animals or humans to a deity as an act of propitiation or worship. Evidence of ritual...
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A holocaust is a religious animal sacrifice that is completely consumed by fire, also known as a burnt offering. The word derives from the ancient Greek...
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(Arabic: أضحية, lit. 'sacrificial animal') as referred to in Islamic law, is a ritual animal sacrifice of a livestock animal during Eid al-Adha. The concept...
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Religion in ancient Rome (redirect from Animal sacrifice in ancient Roman religion)
beans and spring water. The most potent offering was animal sacrifice, typically of domesticated animals such as cattle, sheep and pigs. Each was the best...
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mostly a symbolic act. Human sacrifice once abolished is typically replaced by either animal sacrifice, or by the mock-sacrifice of effigies, such as the...
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Louisiana Voodoo (section Animal sacrifice)
animal sacrifice of nine black chickens in the twentieth century. A Hoodoo man named Turner in New Orleans, Louisiana performed an animal sacrifice for...
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Gadhimai festival (category Animal sacrifice)
dreamed that he could offer a blood sacrifice to the goddess Gadhimai in order to be freed from jail. Animal sacrifice at the festival attracts people from...
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the principal ordinances and of the ritual accompanying the sacrifice: The sacrificial animal, which was either a lamb or goat, had to be a male, one year...
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Hinduism. The vodún are provided with offerings, typically including animal sacrifices. There are several all-male secret societies, including Oró and Egúngún...
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Korban (redirect from Sacrifice in Judaism)
doing homage, winning favor, or securing pardon. The object sacrificed was usually an animal that was ritually slaughtered and then transferred from the...
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Ceremonies of ancient Greece (section Animal sacrifice)
libation as a part of animal sacrifices, where wine was poured onto the animal during the leadup to its sacrifice. Also, once the animal had been killed and...
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Diet in Hinduism (section Animal sacrifice)
horse sacrifice" and that "those desirous of heaven perform sacrifice with seeds instead of animals". It is stated in Mahabharata that animal sacrifices were...
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wait for him; if he repents, You accept him immediately. A number of animal sacrifices were prescribed in the Torah (five books of Moses) as part of the...
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devotees sacrifice an animal such as a buffalo or goat, but in many regions, there is not an actual animal sacrifice and a symbolic sacrifice substitutes...
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Shaktism (section Animal sacrifice)
actual animal, or a vegetable or sweet dish substitute considered equivalent to the animal. In many cases, Shaktism devotees consider animal sacrifice distasteful...
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Santería (section Offerings and animal sacrifice)
initiation. Offerings to the oricha include fruit, liquor, flowers and sacrificed animals. A central ritual is the toque de santo, in which practitioners drum...
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Ancient Celtic religion (section Animal sacrifice)
ancient Celtic peoples sacrificed animals, almost always livestock or working animals. There is some evidence that ancient Celts sacrificed humans, and Caesar...
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most significant hallmark of Jain identity. Jains do not practice animal sacrifice as they consider all sentient beings to be equal. Hinduism has a wide...
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Navaratri (section Animal sacrifice)
demon and the victory of Durga are observed with a symbolic sacrifice instead of animal sacrifice. The Rajput of Rajasthan worship their weapons and horses...
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Lwa (section Offerings and animal sacrifice)
dreams and divination, and in turn are given offerings, including sacrificed animals. Vodou teaches that during ceremonies, the lwa possess specific practitioners...
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Haitian Vodou (section Offerings and animal sacrifice)
to the lwa, and to spirits of the dead, include fruit, liquor, and sacrificed animals. Several forms of divination are utilized to decipher messages from...
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Ashvamedha (category Vedic animal sacrifice)
included many animal sacrifices, as had the various folk religions of India. Brahminical Hinduism had evolved opposing animal sacrifices, which have not...
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worship of animal deities or animal sacrifice. An animal 'cult' is formed when a species is taken to represent a religious figure. Animal cults can be...
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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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Hebrew letters. The killing of animals is animal euthanasia (for pain relief), animal sacrifice (for a deity), animal slaughter (for food), hunting (for...
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During the pre-Columbian era, human sacrifice in Maya culture was the ritual offering of nourishment to the gods and goddesses. Blood was viewed as a...
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offering of a korban (animal sacrifice) in the Temple in Jerusalem. This involved pressing firmly on the head of the sacrificial animal, thereby symbolically...
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