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Categories: Killings by type, Sacrifice, Human sacrifice, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, long volume value
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sacrifice  ritual killing  human sacrifice  victim  Blood god
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The act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity WordNet 3.0
English:
China
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The act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans as part of a ritual, which is usually intended to please or appease gods, a human ruler, public or jurisdictional demands for justice by capital punishment, an authoritative/priestly figure or spirits of dead ancestors or as a retainer sacrifice, wherein a monarch's servants are killed in order for them to continue to serve their master in the next life. Wikipedia
Sacrifice is the offering of material possessions or the lives of animals or humans to a deity as an act of propitiation or worship. Wikipedia
Practice of offering food, or the lives of animals or people to the gods, as an act of propitiation or worship. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Rite Wikidata
Offering to gods Wikidata
A living creature which is slain and offered as human or animal sacrifice, usually in a religious rite. OmegaWiki
The killing of one or more human beings as part of religious ritual. Wiktionary
The ritual killing of a person. Wiktionary (translation)
The offering of anything to a god; a consecratory rite. Wiktionary
IS A
killing
cause of death
homicide
rite
sacrifice
HAS PART
DA
offer
HAS KIND
hecatomb
immolation
sacrifice
Prasad
taurobolium
+26 relations
HAS INSTANCE
blót
Binding of Isaac
Shen Dzu
oscilla
Sonargöltr
+6 relations
CATEGORY DOMAIN
animal
DERIVATION
sacrifice
sacrifice
sacrificial
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Paulys Realenzyklopädie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft
Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
DIFFERENT FROM
victim
FACET OF
religion
USES
animal
frankincense
homo
incense
first fruits
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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sacrifice, ritual killing
Wikipedia
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human sacrifice, sacrifice
Wikidata
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human sacrifice, sacrifice
Wiktionary
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human sacrifice, sacrifice
OmegaWiki
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sacrifice, victim
Wikipedia Redirections
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Blood god, blood sacrifice, Bloody sacrifice, Bog murders, Celtic human sacrifice, Celts and human sacrifice, Flesh sacrifice, Human Sacrifice, Human sacrifice (China), human sacrifice in China, Human sacrifice in Germanic paganism, Human sacrifice in India, Human sacrifice in the Ancient Near East, human sacrifice in Tibet, human sacrifices, Incan human sacrifice, Nara bali, Real sacrifice (chess), retainer sacrifice, ritual killing, ritual murder, ritual sacrifice, Sacrifice theology, sacrificed, Sacrificedly, Sacrificers, sacrifices, Sacrifices in Islam, sacrificial, sacrificial offering, Sacrificialism, Sacrificialisms, Sacrificialist, Sacrificialistic, Sacrificialists, Sacrificially, sacrificing, Sacrificingly
Wikidata Alias
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sacrifice ritual, sacrificial rite, sacrificial ritual

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