Child sacrifice as religious rite

Motif

Child sacrifice as religious rite.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Sacrifices. · view the constellation · filed as S260.1.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 14, Section XCII
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 3, Section CCCXIII
Vedic (Indian / Sanskrit)The Hymns of the Rigveda, 1.23
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 12, Section CCCLXV
Depth CommentaryTotem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics, Chapter IV

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Irish*Cross, Beal XXI 329, O'Suilleabhain 90
Jewish*Neuman
general N. Am. Indian (Aztec): Alexander Lat. Am. 72.

Within the index

Filed under Human sacrifice.

Filed beside it

Sacrifice of sister on advice of yogi Prisoners sacrificed to goddess Sacrifice of child to save life of another. (Cf. S268.)

wander