Ancient World

Child sacrifice

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 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 it. The practice of child sacrifice in Europe and the Near East appears to have ended as a part of the religious and philosophical transformations of late antiquity.

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• ▸Euphrates Dam
• ▸Buyeo
• ▸Balbridie

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