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The Origins of Animal Sacrifice
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Animal sacrifice. It is one of humanity's oldest rituals. But how old? When did this ritual originate? • Part 2: Ancient Greek Sacrifice: Why did they do it? • Ancient Greek Sacrifice: Why did they... • Twitter: @andrewmarkhenry • Facebook: www.facebook.com/religionforbreakfast • Patreon: / religionforbreakfast • Andrew's religious studies book recommendations: http://amazon.com/shop/religionforbre... • RIP Dr. Jonathan Z. Smith. This episode was filmed before I was made aware of his death on Dec. 30th, 2017. His death is a loss to the entire discipline of religious studies, and we are indebted to his scholarship. • The video that almost made me faint. Don't watch if you can't handle it. Watch it if you want to experience one of the most widespread rituals in human history: • Video • Photograph attributions: • Homolovi II ruins: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Machu Picchu: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Reindeer herd: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Reconstruction of auroch hunt cave painting: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Four horned altar: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... • Greco Roman sacrifice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio... • • Bibliography • Walter Burkert, Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth. See especially p. 14 for the discussion of the mammoth skulls. https://books.google.com/books?id=pNG... • Jonathan Z. Smith, The Domesticated Sacrifice, in Relation Religion: Essays in the Study of Religion. • For an extensive discussion of the lamb burial at Catalhoyuk, see N. Russell and B.S. During, Worthy is the Lamb: A Double Burial at Neolithic Catalhoyuk, Paleorient, vol. 32/1, p. 73-84. The reconstruction of the burial that I show comes from page 79 and is by John Gordon Swogger. I claim that my use of the image falls under Fair Use. https://www.academia.edu/151744/Worth... • Nerissa Russell, Social Zooarchaeology: Humans and Animals in Prehistory
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