Marvin Harris says all the sacrificial killing was about providing protein. There was a whole industry of butchering and distributing the human bodies after they were thrown down from the altar.
Marvin Harris says all the sacrificial killing was about providing protein. There was a whole industry of butchering and distributing the human bodies after they were thrown down from the altar.
“Marvin Harris says all the sacrificial killing was about providing protein.”
I remember the wholesale sacrificial slaughter (from WAY back in my college history classes), but don’t remember anything being mentioned about cannibalism. It makes sense though in a blood-lust culture like that. I’m betting that aspect was left out in my college texts...or, maybe just not known when I attended college (just after the Renaissance).
I’ll look for Cannibals and Kings at the library. Thanks.
I just bought that on Amazon Kindle. Thank you for this suggestion, blam