Child sacrifice
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Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to please or appease a god, deity, supernatural beings, or sacred social order, tribal, group or national loyalties in order to achieve
"Offering to Molech" in Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us, by Charles Foster, 1897. The drawing is a typical depiction of child sacrifice in 19th century illustrations.
1499, the Aztecs performing child sacrifice to appease the angry gods who had flooded Tenochtitlan
The inscription on this Sardinian votive doesn't mention the sacrifice
Child depicted, Tunisian figure
Human sacrifice
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Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans as part of a ritual, which is typically intended to please or appease gods, a human ruler, public or jurisdictional demands for justice by capi
Child sacrifice
…deity, supernatural beings, or sacred social order, tribal, group or national loyalties in order to achieve a desired result. As such, it is a form of human sacrifice. Child sacrifice is thought to be an extreme extension of the idea that the more important the object of sacrifice, the more devout the person rendering…
The Sacrifice of Iphigeneia, a depiction of a sacrificial procession on a mosaic from Roman Spain
Human sacrifice in the kingdom of Dahomey
Hawaiian sacrifice, from Jacques Arago's account of Freycinet's travels around the world from 1817 to 1820
The mythological sacrifice of Polyxena by the triumphant Greeks at the end of the Trojan War