[TXBubba]

Archaeologists believe that Clonycavan man was an aristocrat who may have been part of a ritualistic sacrifice.

I've never heard of aristocrat sacrifice before. Murder, yes, sacrifice no.

[Grut]

I've never heard of aristocrat sacrifice before. Murder, yes, sacrifice no.

God of the Witches, by Margaret Murray, outlines a European fertility religion based on King sacrifice which she claims persisted from at least eight thousand years ago into historical times.

[muir_redwoods]

"I've never heard of aristocrat sacrifice before. Murder, yes, sacrifice no"

Joseph Campbell on mythology, writes that Kingship first arose as a form of sacrifice whereby a person was elevated to the kingship position for 7 years or so and then sacrificed. The pool of candidates for kingship was limited to the societal elites.