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 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." Celtic sacrifices confirmed at famed ancient site
I take their skulls to my shrine where silent Gods stand guard. Soak them in blood and in wine, a sacrificial ritual. One thousand heads are on display collected through years of thirst, macabre trophies of my prey picked clean of flesh by Oden's birds. I am a wolf in human shape, every man is prey, a predator with flaming rage, blood is in my trace. I will die with sword in hand and then my seat is secured, when Oden call from the golden halls he will greet me at the door.
So if I walked into a grocery store and asked the first 50 adults about the practice of human sacrifice among the ancient Celts all 50 would know about the subject?
Don't even watch TV & I know this. Also know it's a highly debatable subject as to wether the head huntin' stories were true or primarily a form of propaganda designed by the Romans to dehumanize the Celts
Pfff, Romans. Couldn't even defeat us with their fancy high tech weapons. Automatic missile firing bombardments, lost to a culture that used sticks and stones, and marched under the Irminsul! Blood eagle em!
wonder if there was ever a deity sitting there going 'Dammit! I said virginity! not virgins!! Sacrifice virginity for the weather and good harvest! Enemy prisoners are for combat prowess!! Damn humans.. can't get shit right.. ugggh.'
I think it's odd that the Romans had such a cow about Celtic human sacrifice and head-hunting when they regularly had people kill each other or be eaten by wild animals in the arena for sport. At least the Celts had a spiritual purpose for their blood letting.
You’re right, Gods should be more specific. Genesis 22:2 Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering."
see! that's a hell of a lot more specific than a flock birds and a cloud that looks like a drunkenly amorous porcupine!
