Animals as sacrifice

Motif

Animals as sacrifice.

Religion. · Religious services. · Religious sacrifices. · view the constellation · filed as V12.4

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

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 myth*Cross
Jewish*Neuman
IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Nature of sacrifice.

12 finer motifs beneath it

Sacrifice of animals at the edification of a temple Dog as sacrifice Fish as sacrifice Bird as sacrifice Cat as sacrifice Pig as sacrifice Ox (bull) as sacrifice Goat as sacrifice Sheep (ram) as sacrifice Hare as sacrifice Ass as sacrifice Horse as sacrifice

Filed beside it

Blood as sacrifice Jewels as sacrifice to sea. (Cf. V11.2.)Skulls as sacrifice to a god Gold as sacrifice to false wooden god Thrall as sacrifice Eyes (human or animal) as sacrifice Flowers as sacrifice Libations. Drink poured out to the gods Incense as sacrifice

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