Sacrifice Rituals and Offerings
Rituals and Offerings
Sacrifice - Rituals, Offerings, Blood: Basic to both animal and human sacrifice is the recognition of blood as the sacred life force in man and beast. Through the sacrifice-through the return of the sacred life revealed in the victim-the god lives.
The constituent elements of sacrifice have been incorporated into the particular religions and cultures of the world in various and often complex ways. A few brief observations that may illustrate this variety and complexity are given here.