Origin of human sacrifice

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Origin of human sacrifice.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Origin of customs. · Origin of religious ceremonials. · view the constellation · filed as A1545.5

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-RomanThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. V
Greco-RomanThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. VIII

Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

India*Thompson-Balys
HawaiiBeckwith Myth 370.

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Origin of the custom of wife self-sacrifice (suttee)

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Regulations for sacrifices Animal substituted for human sacrifice Origin of animal sacrifices Custom of sacrifice begun at harvest and sowing times Why animal bones only are used in sacrifice

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