On the connection between serpent worship and human sacrifices, see Fergusson's Tree and Serpent Worship, pp.
These customs have long been credited with being stained by human sacrifices.
For instance, in Anahuac, Mexico, the annual number of human sacrifices, as stated by different writers, varies from twenty to fifty thousand.
The Moabites invoked Baal on Mount Peor, and in times of distress appeased his wrath by human sacrifices.
Had these writers meant that the Druids taught transmigration, they could hardly have added the passages regarding debts being paid in the other world, or letters conveyed there by the dead, or human sacrifices to benefit the dead there.
If Esus was a god of vegetation, once represented by a tree, this would explain why, as the scholiast on Lucan relates, human sacrifices to Esus were suspended from a tree.
The question arises whether the Aztecs, but for their overwhelming priesthood, might conceivably have risen above their system of human sacrifices, as the Aryan Hindus had done in an earlier age.
But the best known case of human sacrifices, systematically offered to ensure good crops, is supplied by the Khonds or Kandhs, another Dravidian race in Bengal.
Thus the ceaseless wars of the Mexicans and their cruel system of human sacrifices, the most monstrous on record, sprang in great measure from a mistaken theory of the solar system.
This tradition of human sacrifices offered at the tomb of Osiris is confirmed by the evidence of the monuments.
In Mangaia the tribe of Teipe, whose members were liable to serve as victims in human sacrifices, worshipped the centipede: there was a shrine of the centipede god at Vaiau on the eastern side of Mangaia.
It was in the honour of such a god that their May-Day celebrations were held and their human sacrifices offered.
In some temples belonging to this village, we found the instruments and remains of human sacrifices, large quantities of parrots feathers, and certain books made of a kind of paper, folded up like Spanish cloth.
He agreed to the request, on the condition that the Aztecs should celebrate no human sacrifices, and should come unarmed.
When the white god left your shores, there were no human sacrifices offered to the gods"--this fact Roger had learned from Malinche, who had told him that the custom had been introduced in comparatively late years.
King Robert and Queen Constance sanctioned by their presence this return to human sacrifices offered to God as a penalty inflicted on mental offenders against His word.
Human sacrifices, then, were not yet foreign to Pagan festivals, and probably the blood of more than one Frankish captive on that occasion flowed in the temple of all the gods.
If he is a deity of a rather lofty moral conception, of course he need not be propitiated byhuman sacrifices or cold chickens.
Bobowissi makes thunder and rain, lives on a hill, and receives, or received, human sacrifices.
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