Sentence examples for religious sacrifice from inspiring English sources
Bucranium, decorative motif representing an ox killed in religious sacrifice.
Captive men were usually slain in religious sacrifice, as human trophies, or for cannibalism.
Our response to "Hamlet," he thought, said more about our bloodlust (and about the roots of theatre in religious sacrifice) than it did about Shakespeare.
The Aztecs apparently practiced cannibalism on a large scale as part of the ritual religious sacrifice of war captives and other victims.
Finding a permanent conflict beween the spiritually erotic and the physically erotic, Claussen strove to unify earthly desire and religious sacrifice in a verbal totality.
There's a goat that was found, bizarrely, on a rooftop in Newark; the sign on the pen speculates that the animal was about to become a religious sacrifice.
They also point to the involvement of religious sacrifices.
It speaks of such things as the "Way of Heaven," motion, spiritual beings, and religious sacrifices.
Leaders of the resistance were executed in the Forum, after which the procession closed with religious sacrifices at the Temple of Jupiter.
"Most of the beheadings that ISIS have committed have been internal, almost religious sacrifices," explained the analyst.
The most superfluous religious sacrifices, games and horse races were abolished, while new income was generated from Domitian's former possessions, including the auctioning of ships, estates, and even furniture.
