[blam]

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[grey_whiskers]

Like, *PING*, dude.

[SunkenCiv]

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[wildbill]

I did a paper on the extent of human sacrifice in the ancient world. There is overwhelming evidence in the pottery and written documents of virtually every culture around the Med. that human sacrifice was used at some time in their history.

Everyone seems cool with the idea that our revered Western culture used animal sacrifice, but recoils at the possibility of human sacrifice by our civilized forebears.

Actually, the use of animals was probably just a later substitution as the cultures became a little more sophisticated and figured out they could “fool” the Gods with lesser animals.