Vedic, consecration of the sacrificer of soma in, iii.
Consecration of thesacrificer of Soma in Vedic India, iii.
India, consecration of the sacrificer of soma in, iii.
Varuna, festival of, wife of the sacrificer obliged to name her paramours at the, iii.
On reaching the summit she was seized by a priest, who threw her on his back, while the sacrificer severed her head from her body, tore out her heart, and threw it in a saucer.
At a certain stage of the ritual the sacrificer is directed to put a stone into a water-pot and to throw it away in a south-westerly direction, because that is the region of Nirriti, the goddess of Evil or Destruction.
With the beloved hosts of Indra, with the blameless, hasting (Maruts), the sacrificer cries aloud.
The Epilogue The sacrificer speaks: Who has magnified you here, O Maruts?
The sacrificer dips his hand in the blood of the animal, and impresses the blood on his palms on the wall near the door leading to the room in which the pots are kept.
This sacrifice continues all night, the Panika sacrificer above, and his immured colleague below, repeating their incantations all the while.
Psychologically the sacrificer is facing in a different direction.
That damage to the abstract self which chiefly impresses the outsider is something of which the sacrificer is hardly aware.
Accordingly I was obliged to say in my definition that the self-sacrificer seeks to heighten another's possessions, pleasures, or powers at the cost of his own.
It is true too that on account of that element of self-assertion to which I have drawn, attention, the genuine sacrificer is ordinarily unaware of any such tragedy.
The sacrificer must feel that he cares nothing for what is rational, but only for what is holy, for his duty.
The sacrificer does not give according to measure.
What kind of sacrifice is that wherein not even the sacrificer is known to have a share?
And as a sacrificer should be a person of a godly character, so it is better to perish by famine than to receive an oblation from the ungodly.
Yet we have reason to suspect that the gratitude of the sacrificer is commonly {616} of the kind which La Rochefoucauld defined as "a secret desire to receive greater benefits in the future.
Such admittance was naturally most sought after in the case of that race which bore the most famous name, which was supposed to spring from the most celebrated sacrificer of early times, and claimed to possess his songs.
It is left to Indra to give to the sacrificer whatever he considers best and most valuable; he is entreated to instruct the sacrificer, to give him wisdom, as a father to his child.
As Sudas laid low twenty-one enemies in glorious strife, as the sacrificer strews holy grass on the place of sacrifice, so did Indra the hero pour out the winds.
Lord of a hundred sacrifices, the performance of a hundred Aśvamedhas or sacrifices of a horse entitling the sacrificer to this exalted dignity.
A hundred Aśvamedhas or sacrifices of a horse raise the sacrificer to the dignity of Indra.
The chief sacrificer next tore out her heart and devoured it.
The following morning, the grand sacrificer goes to the king, demanding, in the name of the great serpent, (their deity!
When they are thus assembled to sacrifice, the chief sacrificer goes and takes a pig; and if it be not a barrow pig they would not sacrifice it to that ghost, he would reject it and not eat of it.
If there were a shrine in the sanctuary, nobody but the sacrificer might enter it.
The remainder of the food the sacrificer takes back to the assembled people; some of it he eats himself and some of it he gives to his assistant to eat.
When the cutting up is finished, the chief sacrificer takes a bit of flesh from the pig, and he takes a cocoa-nut shell and dips up some of the blood.
The sacrificer alone enters the shrine, but he takes with him his son or other person whom he has instructed in the ritual.
Before the animal was killed the sacrificer laid his hand on its head for a time; then he who offered the sacrifice, whether priest or layman, slew the victim, but only the priest could receive the warm blood in the sacrificial vessel.
Then after waiting a short time the sacrificer carries away the flesh and uses it for whatever purpose he pleases.
Then when the flesh is boiled, the sacrificer takes a first offering of the flesh and of the vital organs and casts it in front of him.
One hundred horse sacrifices entitled the sacrificer to displace Indra from heaven, so the deity was always trying to capture the horse which was allowed to roam about before immolation.
It is a common ritual custom for the sacrificer to cover himself with the skin and head of the animal sacrificed.
The sacrificer is weak; the victim is comparatively powerful.
The blow must be accurate then and there, or the sacrificer will be caught in the vice and perish.
After a short pause the sacrificer takes up the pieces of flesh and does with them whatever he likes.
The man who cut the best figure in argument was in greatest demand as a sacrificer and obtained the highest fees.
In the Brâhmaṇas and later ritual literature he is definitely recognized as the supreme deity, the Creator, the first sacrificer and the sacrifice itself.
The sacrificer captures fit specimens when they are young, and treats them with particular kindness till they are almost grown up.
Ordinarily the gain is represented as a compensating gift from the divinity, whom the sacrificer pleases with his sacrifice.
The sacrifice goes up to the world of gods, and after it goes the fee which the sacrificer (the patron) gives; the sacrificer follows by catching hold of the fee given to the priests (ib.
The sacrificer sacrifices to get a place in devaloka (the world of the gods).
Human sacrifice must have been peculiarly horrible from the fact that the sacrificer not only had to kill the man but to eat him, as is attested by the formal statement of the liturgical works.
Nor is it only sacrifice and sacrificer that are seen in deepest truth in the experience of the Christian life, but the reality of the Temple is also there, for 'Ye also .
The impulse to sanctification gains the dominance over the sacrificial idea as soon as the desires relating to the personal worth of the sacrificer himself gain ascendancy over the external motives which at first prevailed.
The sacrificer offered such parts of his own body as were held to be the specific vehicles of the soul.
Nor was the renunciation required of the sacrificerin connection with the Jewish sin-offering a feature which had anything in common with a gift.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sacrificer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
