Sentences with phrase «sacrificial victims»

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

Those who make it to the end will encounter shimmering crystal formations, Mayan ceremonial relics, and the skeletal remains of Mayan sacrificial victims.

The tour takes 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.

Nearby lie the remains of seven adult sacrificial victims as well as those of five children all under the age of 5.

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

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

There are about 15 skeletal remains in the main chamber and these, and the Crystal Maiden herself, were probably sacrificial victims.

These are not the ceremonial burials found in the other two caves in the area, but are sacrificial victims.

During the Black Rock portion of your Belize honeymoon, you'll stay in a Deluxe Cabana overlooking the Black Rock waterfalls, enjoy the excellent meals at Black Rock Lodge and tour the Caracol Mayan ruins (the largest in Belize), the Rio On Pools and Rio Frio Cave in the Mountain Pine Ridge area of Belize, Aktun Tunichil Muknal cave (Cave of the Crystal Maiden) where you'll see the preserved remains of Mayan sacrificial victims — and a night time guided jungle tour.

The ancient Mayan people who lived in the Yucatan believed cenotes were gateways to the underworld (they sometimes threw sacrificial victims and buried their dead in cenotes).

With the occasional exception of the physically handicapped, most sacrificial victims were captives of war.

The temple cultus, with its sacrifices and offerings and the arrangements for providing sacrificial victims, had become such an elaborate, noisy, and odorous affair that to the earnest young prophet from Galilee the spirit of true worship must have seemed to be lost.

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.

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

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.

There are even skid marks in the sediment indicating places where the sacrificial victims were reluctant to participate.

'' «I am sure, Mr. Rearden,» said the eldest judge, «that you do not really believe — nor does the public — that we wish to treat you as a sacrificial victim.

Lewis» most successful novel, I believe, is the first part of his science - fiction trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, in which a Cambridge don named Ransom is kidnapped by two diabolical characters, the scientist Weston and the entrepreneur Devine, and transported via rocket ship as a sacrificial victim to the inhabitants of another planet called Malacandra (Mars).12.

Now he says «recognising the sacrificial Victim».

He must be harmless as the dove (the sacrificial victim, ready to sacrifice himself in his action — for the dove is the sacrificial victim) and wise as the serpent (that is, fully aware of just what he thinks and does).

The sacrificial victim of «civilization as we know it,» he bids us to let go.

But instead comes Easter, which rudely interrupts all the minatory and sententious moralisms of the tragic chorus, just as they are about to be uttered to full effect, and which cavalierly violates the central tenet of sound economics: rather than trading the sacrificial victim for some supernatural benefit, and so the particular for the universal, Easter restores the slain hero in his particularity again, as the only truth the Gospels have to offer.

In societies in which violence is rampant on the street and in the media, the nursing Virgin can perhaps communicate God's love to people in a way that a violent image, the image of one more sacrificial victim, can not.

He addresses the halter by which a sacrificial victim is bound to the stake thus: «Become no snake — become no viper.»

The unifying rationale is the necessity of killing a sacrificial victim to protect human beings against their own inevitable escalation of retributive violence.

If reconciliation is indeed the basic Christian experience, we would be justified in giving greater attention to the latter models (liberator and moral example) than the former (penal substitute and sacrificial victim).10

For Anselm, who made extensive use of it, this model was based on a profound experience of guilt interpreted by means of legal analogies.9 Second, the sacrificial victim model uses the images of the temple sacrifice.

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.

One of the crucial things that makes the church a new community is its solidarity not against some sacrificial victim, but in identification with the crucified one.

Johan Reinhard with another sacrificial victim found on Lullaillaco.

Preparatory rituals could be lengthy and sometimes involved a monthslong procession that wound its way from village to village through the empire, each stop an opportunity for the residents to celebrate the sacrificial victim's passage.

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

Anchovy bones and mollusk shells are abundant at all the sites, but less so at the inland locations than at Aspero; indeed, a sacrificial victim found at Caral showed signs of protein deficiency and chronic anemia.

She is the symbolic sacrificial victim.

Recognizing the sacrificial victim: The problem of solidarity for critical social theory.

Cashel Man, the oldest bog body in the entire continent of Europe at roughly 4,000 years, is thought to be a sacrificial victim and provides a fascinating look at the culture of prehistoric Ireland.

This sacrificial victim, estimated to be a young adult in their 20s, has, over time, bonded with the minerals in the cave to acquire a glittery sheen.

Not exact matches

Rather do we take a stern joy in the astringency and desolation; and what is called weakness of character seems in most cases to consist in the inaptitude for these sacrificial moods, of which one's own inferior self and its pet softnesses must often be the targets and the victims.

There are a number of places where Christ or His actions are described in sacrificial terms, [4] but the title «Priest» is never given, and generally these passages emphasise Christ's role as victim more than priest.

It is God alone who can reveal the entire reality of the sacrificial process, reverse through resurrection its obliteration of victims, and structure an alterative option for human solidarity.

He did so first in the mythic, sacrificial sense that all scapegoated victims do.

Village priest Father James Lavelle finds himself offered up as a sacrificial lamb when a victim of sexual abuse, now grown, decides that killing an innocent priest will send a better message than disposing of a guilty one.

He demands sacrificial female victims brought to an altar behind the church in Taborov.