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An archaeologist excavates animal bones in a pit at Usakli Hoyuk, Turkey.
University of Pisa
University of Pisa


1 posted on 08/17/2025 2:43:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

Sadly, we have our “rituals” too. We are not better than them, as a nation.


5 posted on 08/17/2025 2:59:54 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: SunkenCiv

No mention of the word sacrafice, disgusting sanitizing of a horrible culture.


7 posted on 08/17/2025 3:05:44 PM PDT by Skwor
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To: SunkenCiv

Judaism = No more child sacrifice. No more paganistic child sacrifice. This was a great advancement for humanity. Though in the East, I suppose Buddhism also prohibits child sacrifice.

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Judaism started around 2000 BCE, traditionally marked by the covenant between God and Abraham, who is regarded as the patriarch of the faith. This foundational event set the basis for Judaism’s religious identity, including the laws given to Moses such as the Ten Commandments.

Buddhism began much later, in the 6th century BCE, founded by Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) in northern India. After his enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, he spent about 45 years teaching the path to enlightenment and liberation from suffering.


9 posted on 08/17/2025 3:25:05 PM PDT by dennisw (There is no limit to human stupidity)
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To: SunkenCiv
Balancing production versus reproduction, drives versus resources, wealth as a magnet for catastrophe, rape versus empire...

Oh the human conditions and the self-inflicting ruse of overpopulation inculcating the inability to see alternatives to the descent into barbarism in the name of supposed advantages. Where was VHEMT when we didn't need them? Nor do we now. I somehow doubt its historic equal.

I knew that Darwin was Malthus' cousin (twice removed) but I hadn't considered until today that it was perhaps that inspiration from which the Galapagos were sought because they supposedly had always been uninhabited. I know that Thor Heyerdahl asked that question (for whom I have enormous respect) but all the pooh-pooh-pshawing I've seen have been on mostly agro-urban metrics, whatever evidences of the type of people he might have posited being much less sedentary. Yet it is entirely rational to expect that ancient Polynesian peoples made introductions to those islands for food production. Thus possibly indicating yet another "scientific" flubub.

Thoughts?

11 posted on 08/17/2025 3:29:27 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: SunkenCiv
[Remains of Young Children Hint at Hittite Rituals
nearby Planned Parenthood "healthcare" facilities]

13 posted on 08/17/2025 3:48:00 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SunkenCiv

One of the CREEPIEST places I’ve ever visited was Chichen Itza in Sunny Mexico.

Yeah, climbing their ancient Mayan ‘pyramids’ was great fun - but they also showed us the ‘bottomless pit’ pool where they threw young children draped in fine jewelry and other various treasure to their DEATHS to appease whatever god was on tap that day/month/year.

*SHUDDER*


15 posted on 08/17/2025 4:03:02 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: SunkenCiv
"When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.

Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.

This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

- Deuteronomy 7

There was a reason the Hittites were judged as evil and worthy of destruction...

16 posted on 08/17/2025 4:09:23 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ LIFE )
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To: SunkenCiv
Be interesting to know if they, like the Carthaginians sacrificed the children of the high born, low born and slaves or did the beggar king bit like the Inca.
18 posted on 08/17/2025 4:41:41 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Those Hitlerites weren’t nice people, were they?


24 posted on 08/17/2025 4:48:49 PM PDT by x
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