Sentences with phrase «of sacrificial victims»

Archeologists have found altars, religious carvings, and the remains of sacrificial victims in some of these caves.

11, pp. 401 - 403) and even valiant heroes were reduced in Hades to ghosts so feeble that a draught of the fresh blood of sacrificial victims was necessary to rouse them to action.

The Tzompantli structure at Chichén Itzá is a Toltec structure, where the heads of sacrificial victims were placed.

The Hebrews were always falling back, they said themselves, into the old idolatry; the Romans continued, mostly, to expect omens in the flight of birds and the state of a sacrificial victim's entrails, and half - persuaded themselves that their emperor was divine; Christians still suppose that there are nonhuman spirits at work, for good or ill, in all the world around them.

Sometimes divination was by the reading of the stars, astrology, sometimes by reading the livers of sacrificial victims, or other means.

We can easily see how a ritual would evolve from this story — perhaps the annual offering of a sacrificial victim at the foot of the sacred tree.

The high priest would start a new fire on the ripped - open chest of a sacrificial victim.

We practice a kind of historical make - nice in which we politely disbelieve that violent myths of the founding of culture might do exactly what they say they do, an unwillingness to admit that there exist cultures which genuinely require for their continued existence the blood of sacrificial victims to be mixed with the mortar of their buildings.

The heads of sacrificial victims were displayed here, together with those of the players who lost the famous Mayan ball game.

The tour will take you through the majestic Maya underworld in an inflatable inner tube where you will discover stunning stalactites and stalagmites formations, astonishing crystal curtains, fire pits, Maya ceremonial pottery, wall carvings, glyph writings and even skeletal remains of sacrificial victims.

The Caves Branch tour will take you through the majestic Maya underworld where you will discover stunning stalactites and stalagmites formations, astonishing crystal curtains, fire pits, Maya ceremonial pottery, wall carvings, glyph writings and even skeletal remains of sacrificial victims.