You venture to affirm that you have never immolated human victims to the Lord.
Gentlemen, it is to the subject of Jephthah, to the subject of human victims, of the blood of men sacrificed to God, that I am now desirous of drawing your attention!
Paramo was a plain, direct man, very exact in dates, omitting no interesting fact, and calculating with precision the number of human victims immolated by the Holy Office throughout the world.
Tototectin, men clad in skins ofhuman victims in Mexico, ix.
Barito, the, of Borneo, sacrifice cattle instead of human victims, iv.
This interpretation is supported by many undoubted cases in which animals have been substituted for human victims.
Yet the bright tradition of his reign was crossed by a dark shadow: his altars are said to have been stained with the blood of human victims, for whom a more merciful age afterwards substituted effigies.
He passed for an unnatural parent who had devoured his own offspring, and he was regularly identified by the Greeks with the cruel Semitic Baals who delighted in the sacrifice of human victims, especially of children.
The number ofhuman victims sacrificed at the death of a priest varied with the respect and fear which he had inspired in his lifetime;[131] a common number seems to have been three.
The tauas or high priests were supposed to become gods after death; when one of them departed this life, it was essential for his deification that human victims should be sacrificed.
Of these they made images; whereas hitherto the only image in the British worship was the great wicker idol into which they thrust human victims designed to be burnt as an expiatory sacrifice for the sins of some chieftain.
This picture proves that the serpent was propitiated by human victims.
When first seen by the Spaniards it was warm with the blood of human victims.
Massaya, volcano in Nicaragua, human victims sacrificed to, i.
There is no doubt that, after witnessing some of the barbarous sacrifices of human victims followed by cannibal feasts, their souls had naturally been sickened.
The most remarkable problem connected with ancient Mexico is how to reconcile the general refinement and civilization with the sacrifices of human victims.
Burnt sacrifices of human victims at Salamis and traces of a similar custom elsewhere.
The sacrifice of human victims is resorted to as a method of putting an end to a devastating famine.
Human victims offered in war, before a battle, or during a siege, p.
In Jeypore "the blood-red god of battle" is propitiated by human victims.
Men offer up human victims to their gods because they think that the gods are gratified by such offerings.
Thus in Minahassa, a district of Celebes, human victims used to be regularly sacrificed at certain festivals, but through Dutch influence the custom was abolished and a sham sacrifice substituted for it.
An event which in Mexico would be the death-signal to a hecatomb of human victims, would in Yucatan be celebrated by the death of a spotted dog.
Of obsidian were made the knives used in the sacrifice of human victims, and the lancets used in bleeding for medicinal purposes and in drawing blood in the service of the gods.
The sacrifice of human victims on the funeral pile will be discussed in a later chapter.
They began to wet their altars with the heart's blood of human victims.
Small idols of seeds and dough were then prepared, their breasts were opened like those of human victims, the heart was cut out, and the body distributed for eating.
This national disaster was, of course, attributed to the anger of the gods, and the utmost efforts were made to conciliate their irate divinities by the only efficacious means known, the sacrifice of human victims.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "human victims" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
