thanks for the ping, I follow your thinking, I don’t believe for a moment these people killed children and young animals for pleasure or entertainment, they had to have had, in their way of thinking, very good reasons. Assuming they were being punished by their own concept of a supreme being, a ‘gift’ of what was most precious might have seemed to them a way to persuade their gods to behave kindly to them.
Starvation and destruction due to some catastrophic event would perhaps explain the sacrifices.
‘a ‘gift’ of what was most precious might have seemed to them a way to persuade their gods to behave kindly to them.’
did you ever wonder about the mentality of dieties that require blood sacrifice in order to procure sufficient worship from their creations...? for that matter, why would any omnipotent divinity, capable of total knowledge and limitless power, find it necessary to be worshiped in the first place...?