Sentences with phrase «ritual animal sacrifices»

Chemists have confirmed something that archaeologists and art historians have long suspected: Ancient sculptures found in western Africa contain blood from ritual animal sacrifices in their patina.

During her tenure, Laura has conducted investigations into activities including animal dealers, animal collectors, horse and dog racing, animal fighting and ritual animal sacrifice.

The prosecution claimed that the blood on the cloth was deposited during a ritual animal sacrifice and the glass was a «chalice» from which Hardin drank the blood of the animals he sacrificed for Satan.

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The entire economy of the city of Jerusalem was built on temple activities, bathing before the offerings for a fee, dressing for going to the temple, for a fee, buying the offerings, for a fee, paying the priests, temple entrance fees, food prep fees, growing and feeding the animals for the sacrifices, being paid for them, in the thousands and thousands at festival times, ALL in Jewish currency only, which was required for their rituals, and most people used Roman currency for their civil affairs.

Sancio and Bloch say that the ritual of «blot» can involve sacrificing a valued object, but sometimes it involves killing an animal.

Again, he was the sacrificer, at the animal sacrifice or Hotri, performing himself the manual parts as well as reciting the ritual.

The Sacrament of Eucharist becomes a ritual contra ritual in that it brings to a close a cultic tradition of animal sacrifice for the expiation of sins.

This «God» at one time demanded, and got its jollies from animal sacrifice, in an oh - so - special ritual right down to the placement of entrails on an altar... but, oops, it changed its mind somewhere along the line.

The ultimate emotional and spiritual motives for a sacrifice, the estimated value of a sacrifice, the enormous variety of sacrifices (sacrifices of flowers, incense, drink, animals, all with manifold liturgical and ritual variations) are extremely hard to fathom.

Some of those animals end up as sacrifices in religious or sadistic rituals.

Many animals are sold and bred for religious sacrifice including goats, sheep, chickens, pigs, rabbits, cows, dogs, cats and for more extreme and darker «black magic» rituals, horses.

ARM's investigations of the religious sacrifice have grown at a steady rate due to the existence of these slaughter farms, their culture and along with it their beliefs, traditions and religions that require the sacrificing of animals to perform both good and evil rituals and spells.