Animal sacrifice
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Animal sacrifice is the ritual killing and offering of animals, usually as part of a religious ritual or to appease or maintain favour with a deity. Animal sacrifices were common throughout Europe and
Sacrifice of a pig in ancient Greece (tondo from an Attic red-figure cup, 510–500 BCE, by the Epidromos Painter, collections of the Louvre)
One of the altars at the Monte d'Accoddi in Sardinia, where animal sacrifice may have occurred.
A bull is led to the altar of Athena, whose image is at right. Vase, c. 545 BCE.
Sacrifice of a lamb on a Pitsa Panel, Corinth, 540–530 BCE
Holocaust (sacrifice)
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A holocaust is a religious animal sacrifice that is completely consumed by fire, also known as a burnt offering. The word derives from the ancient Greek holokaustos, the form of sacrifice in which the
Animal sacrifice
…Greeks ate most of the edible parts of the sacrifice in a feast, and burnt the rest as an offering. Others burnt the whole animal offering, called a holocaust. Usually, the best animal or best share of the animal is the one presented for offering. Animal sacrifice should generally be distinguished from the…
Sacrifice of a pig to Demeter (tondo from an Attic red-figure kylix, c. 510–500 BC
The Altar of Incense, Altar of Burnt-Offering, and Laver from the biblical Tabernacle; illustration from the 1890 Holman Bible