Nadene Goldfoot
Marcus Aurelius (head covered) sacrificing at the Temple of Jupiter
While the ancient Israelites, Romans and Egyptians engaged in human sacrifice for religious purposes, 20th-century archaeologists had thought that the practice was not common among the Greeks.
- Achilles: son of the sea nymph Thetis (daughter of sea god Nereus), and Peleus, king of the Myrmidons.
- Heracles: son of Zeus (king of the gods) and Alcmene, a mortal woman.--both of Greek belief
- Hercules: son of Jupiter and Alcmene, the Roman equivalent of the Greek Heracles.--Roman belief
- more from Greeks, less from Romans of demi-gods.
Human sacrifice was practiced in many human societies beginning in prehistoric times. By the Iron Age (1st millennium BCE), with the associated developments in religion (the Axial Age), human sacrifice was becoming less common throughout Africa, Europe, and Asia, and came to be looked down upon as barbaric during classical antiquity. In the Americas, however, human sacrifice continued to be practiced, by some, to varying degrees until the European colonization of the Americas. Today, human sacrifice has become extremely rare.
Modern secular laws treat human sacrifices as tantamount to murder. Most major religions in the modern day condemn the practice. For example, the Hebrew Bible, oldest of the modern religions, prohibits murder and human sacrifice to Moloch as its written in Torah. Vestigas of the belief still remain.
It was transferred to sacrificing animals literally, then sacrificing doing things one enjoyed for the sake of making a sacrifice such as by the mock-sacrifice of effigies, such as the Argei in ancient Rome. According to Pliny the Elder, human sacrifice in ancient Rome was abolished by a senatorial decree in 97 BCE, although by this time the practice had already become so rare that the decree was mostly a symbolic act.
However, The rituals of the Argei were archaic religious observances in ancient Rome that took place on March 16 and March 17, and again on May 14 or May 15. By the time of Augustus, the meaning of these rituals had become obscure even to those who practiced them. For the May rites, a procession of pontiffs, Vestals, and praetors made its way around a circuit of 27 stations (sacella or sacraria), where at each they retrieved a figure fashioned into human form from rush, reed, and straw, resembling men tied hand and foot. After all the stations were visited, the procession, accompanied by the Flaminica Dialis in mourning guise, moved to the Pons Sublicius, the oldest known bridge in Rome, where the gathered figures were tossed into the Tiber River.
Human sacrifice is also said to be 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 or jurisdictional demands for justice by capital punishment, an authoritative/priestly figure or spirits of dead ancestors or as a retainer sacrifice, wherein a monarch's servants are killed in order for them to continue to serve their master in the next life. Closely related practices found in some tribal societies are cannibalism and headhunting.
Considering that human sacrifice was practiced all over the earth in order to appease the gods, I'm happy to have been born in the 20th century, even with all our scary ways of dying. Nothing could be worse than that of a possible chance to be a sacrificial object for people.
I-24 announced that the terrorist who hit in Tel Aviv on the 5th of August had said he sacrificed himself in this act of shooting civilians. He hit one.
Update: 8/7/23: One comment I want to make clear that may not be understood. Jews have not practiced human sacrifice since Abraham was stopped in the act of doing this to Isaac, his son. It is a major law that is not to be broken. They did not sacrifice Jesus.
Judaism's High priest was not listened to nor any other Jewish representative by any Roman official; in that they were all under the gun like all the other Jews, in danger for whatever they said to Romans that might cause them anger, and thus punished on the cross.
Romans destroyed the Temple and Jerusalem in 70, and nothing stopped them. The last thing the Jewish leaders would want to be responsible for would be allowing another Jew to hang on the Roman crosses! Jesus, by his statements according to the New Testament was threatening to the Roman Emperor's position in being king of the Jews-which was incorrect, anyway. The emperor had already decided his fate without any prompting.
Christianity has spoken of Jesus as a sacrifice. He's not a Jewish sacrifice in any respect. To us, any person taken and placed on the cross was a victim of murder. We as a people do not sacrifice any human or anyone thinking they are demi-gods, or whatever they may think they are.
Resource:
Genesis: ( 22:1-19)
https://www.history.com/news/aztec-human-sacrifice-religionhttps://www.livescience.com/59514-cultures-that-practiced-human-sacrifice.html
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