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Found this interesting. When most people think of human sacrifice being practice they usually don't think of it happening among Europeans. But some ancient cultures practiced this in some form it seems.
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The Celts were big fans of skulls, Voigt notes in a chapter of the bookSacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East, edited by Anne Porter and Glenn Schwartz.
The Romans noted they collected heads of enemies to hang from their horses, and they sacrificed criminals and captured enemies, using their death throes to foretell the future. "The heads of those enemies that were held in high esteem they would embalm in cedar oil and display them to their guests, and they would not think of having them ransomed even for an equal weight of gold," wrote the ancient Greek historian, Strabo.
Yes. The reason the Romans hated the Gauls and the Carthaginians with such a passion is their practices of human sacrifices, the Carthaginians had a thing for sacrificing children and babies, and in the case of Europeans tribes burning people at the stake. They found human sacrifice extremely distasteful, which seems odd given their own creative ways of killing people.
they found some charnel pits at Ur recently that indicate mass human sacrifices there as well, but I haven't checked that story out recently and don't know the latest.
I guess human sacrifice was more widespread in the old world than many people think and on every continent. When many think of human sacrifice I think the Aztecs come to mind for many.
Who knows. Carthage's baby sacrifices are well proven by recent find..when many belefed it was Roman propaganda.
Roman accused of human all barbarians, so who knows? Probaly Germanics and Celts and their baskets, being Germanics more barbarian.
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Found this interesting. When most people think of human sacrifice being practice they usually don't think of it happening among Europeans. But some ancient cultures practiced this in some form it seems.
The real William Wallace was not as nice as he was potrayed in fictional Braveheart and had a belt made out of his enemies skins.
Well, duh, entire auto da fe practice is pretty much what this is...
Otherwise, our enemies always have dog heads. That's how propaganda ALWAYS worked. I am referring to made up story about Carthage sacrificing hundreds of children to Moloch. Don't read school books or watch Hollywood "historical" movies. Do some research. Carthage was Rome's number one enemy (well, more so, enemy of banking houses/elite clans that ran Rome, being a most powerful seafare country at that time and having hold on all Mediterranean/Africa trade routes), so of course they all had dog heads and were burning children. According to Rome. Qui bono.
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