#human sacrifice

[vexwerewolf]

If your religion prescribes death for certain crimes, that's human sacrifice. Sorry buddy, but entirely regardless of the secular ethics of capital punishment, a religious decree demanding the death of a person to balance moral scales is just a fancy way of demanding a human sacrifice.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I got kidnapped by a cult and were going to use me as a human sacrifice, but instead of chanting something creepy they chanted the lyrics to Big Lizard by The Dead Milkmen.

[grayrazor]

Eldritch cult takes over a major corporation. Refers to the Outer Gods as "The Shareholders." None of the old employees notice anything is any different.

[oldschoolfrp]

That old time religion -- Followers of Wakboth (the Devil, the Doom of the World) seek a return to the Great Darkness when Chaos reigned across Glorantha (Guillaume Sorel, Runequest supplement Les Dieux de Glorantha, Oriflam for Avalon Hill & Chaosium, 1987)

[oldmandoomer]

The Offering - ink. 2023

GBFA

[a-whispering-echo]

The God's.

hehe, this is the first thing i've done for this au of mine here!

its the one au I have where Killer and Dust do NOT ike each other.

You can totally ask me about them if you want, and i might do some more stuff with hem, and the others <3

no text vers under the cut <3

[world-of-mummies]

Mummies of a woman with a female child of the Yampara culture, 11th century. Found in Naunaca Mojocoya, Bolivia.

This is a human sacrifice that was offered at every lunar eclipse to appease the moon god: the heart was taken from a healthy and a sick person while they were still alive)

[weirdlookindog]

Fritz Schwimbeck - Das Opfer, 1915

[ancientorigins]

When American archaeologist Edward Herbert Thompson dove into the deep blue waters of Chichen Itza's Sacred Cenote, little did he realize the blue sediment he encountered was the key to unravelling the mysteries of the ancient pigment known as Maya blue.

Decades later, artifacts dredged up from the bottom of the sinkhole provided clues to the sacrificial rituals which once took place at the sacred cenote. To appease Chaac, the god of rain, the ancient Maya would paint sacrificial victims and precious artifacts with Maya blue, before flinging them into the waters that connected them with the underworld.

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Grauballe Man.

Culture/Period: Iron Age

Place of discovery: Nebelgaard Bog

Place of origin: Denmark

From the source: He was violently killed and placed in a watery grave in a small bog. Here he lay for thousands of years until his discovery in April 1952.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

The class clown sacrificed my friends to a bunny cult.

[creature-wizard]

It's so ironic how the people who hate unions and think capitalism is the be-all, end-all of economic systems freak out over the thoughts of satanic cults supposedly committing human sacrifice.

Someone's in favor of human sacrifice, all right, but it's sure not the imaginary global satanic cult.

[the-wizard-in-red]

SCROLL DOWN TO MY SATANIC POSTS AND CLICK ON THE LINK (the devils magic) TO FIND MY SATANIC BLOG 'SATANS BLOOD MAGIC'

[scenes-inside-my-head]

The Lair of the White Worm (1988)

[aeshnacyanea2000]

A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practised human sacrifice, except that they didn’t really need to practise any more because they had got so good at it. City law said that only condemned criminals should be used, but that was all right because in most of the religions refusing to volunteer for sacrifice was an offence punishable by death.

-- Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards!

[weirdlookindog]

"For a full moment she stood over him, knife poised" - Fred Engelhardt

H. L. Parkhurst - Heritage of Osiris

(Thrilling Mystery - September 1939)