Sacrifices were offered to the water when an army came to a river,--a custom observed by other nations.
He was invoked before they went on any important expedition; and when their armies were victorious, sacrifices were offered to him.
At Assam and elsewhere, when a person was sick, sacrifices were offered to the god of the four winds.
Sacrifices were offered to him by Athenian generals as they started on their expeditions.
Sacrifices were offered at the new boundary of an empire, by ancient Assyrian and Egyptian kings, when they set up a pillar, or stele, at the freshly acquired threshold in that direction.
After this they say that great sacrifices were offered up in Pachacamac by Tupac Inca Yupanqui, and great festivals were celebrated.
Sacrifices were offered up in the temples, and preparations were made for the interment in accordance with custom, the soul being supposed to be in heaven.
Yet what we see and understand is that the Devil had very great power over these people, God permitting it, and that in these places very heathenish and vain sacrifices were offered up.
When all who had to go to the war were assembled, sacrifices were offered up to their gods in conformity with their blindness, making the soothsayers seek an answer touching the war from the oracles.
As spring progressed, sacrifices were offered to Tellus, the nourishing earth; to Ceres, the Greek goddess Demeter, introduced from Sicily B.
Sacrifices were offered in the temples, and with impressive ceremonies the new authority was joyfully entrusted to him (715 B.
Numa ordered all persons to mark the limits of their lands by consecrated stones, and at these, when they celebrated the feast of Terminalia, sacrifices were to be offered of cakes, meal, and fruits.
In addition to those above enumerated, sacrifices were made, either with a view of obtaining success in an enterprise about to be undertaken, or in fulfilment of a vow, or at the command of an oracle.
Here there were temple priestesses in numbers; sacrifices were offered on the summits of the mountains and hills, whilst vice held its orgies in the shade of the oaks and terebinths.
Besides the prayers, sacrifices were offered up according to the letter of the Law.
During the transfer of the ark of the covenant, and during the consecration, many thousands of sacrifices were offered, and also psalms were sung.
Sacrifices were made to her as to one already dead.
During that and the following dynasty sacrifices were offered to them on the fifth day of the fifth moon.
Sacrifices were offered to Heaven, the hills and rivers, ancestors, and all the spirits.
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