sacrifice

Examples of sacrifice in the following topics:

• Sacrifices

  • Human sacrifice was also practiced by many ancient cultures.
  • Sacrifices were either blood sacrifices (animals) or bloodless offerings (grain and wine).
  • An animal sacrifice in Arabic is called Qurban.
  • Animal sacrifice offered together with libation in Ancient Greece.
  • The Aztecs practiced human sacrifice on an unusually large scale; for instance, a sacrifice would be made every day to aid the sun in rising.

• Offerings

  • Religious offerings, also called bloodless sacrifices, are the offerings of food or objects to a religious diety(ies) as an act of worship.
  • Religious offerings, also known as sacrifices, are the offerings of food, objects, or the lives of animals (and sometimes humans) to a higher purpose, to God, or gods as an act of propitiation or worship.
  • While sacrifice often implies ritual killing, the term offering (Latin oblatio) can be used for bloodless sacrifices of food or artifacts.
  • The Latin term came to be used of the Christian eucharist in particular, sometimes named a "bloodless sacrifice" to distinguish it from blood sacrifices.
  • In individual pre-Christian ethnic religions, terms translated as "sacrifice" include the Indic yajna, the Greek thusia, the Germanic blōtan, the Semitic qorban/qurban, etc.

• The Human Sacrifice

• Aztec Religion

  • The Aztecs practiced ritual sacrifice, ball games, and bloodletting in order to renew the sun each day.
  • Tlaxcala also practiced the human sacrifice of captured Aztec citizens.
  • Death and ritual blood sacrifice ensured the sun would rise again and crops would continue to grow.
  • Priests would have stood on the platform at the top to perform religious duties and sacrifices.
  • This Spanish rendering of human sacrifices reflects the outsider's view of these ritual traditions.

• Water reduction measures

  • With offices using up to 12% or more of a nation's daily potable water, much can be done to reduce consumption without making sacrifices.

• Shang Religion

  • Shang religion was characterized by a combination of animism, shamanism, spiritual control of the world, divination, and respect and worship of dead ancestors, including through sacrifices.
  • Shang religion was characterized by a combination of animism, shamanism, spiritual control of the world, divination, and respect and worship of dead ancestors, including through sacrifice.
  • Archaeologists have found Shang tombs surrounded by the skulls and bodies of human sacrifices.

• Cost

  • A person who opens their own business and decides not to pay himself or herself any wages must realize that there is a "cost" associated with their labour, they sacrifice a wage that they could have earned in some other use.
  • The opportunity costs associated with any activity may be explicit, out of pocket, expenditures made in monetary units or implicit costs that involve sacrifice that is not measured in monetary terms.

• The Ancient Greek Gods and Their Temples

  • Religious festivals and ceremonies were held throughout the year, and animal sacrifice and votive offerings were popular ways to appease and worship the gods.
  • Rituals and animal sacrifices in honor of the god or goddess would take place outside, in front of the temple.
  • Rituals often included a large number of people, and sacrifice was a messy business that was best done outdoors.
  • Scene of a sacrifice.

• Religion in the Inca Empire

  • Human sacrifice has been exaggerated by myth, but it did play a role in Inca religious practices.
  • The Incas also performed child sacrifices during or after important events, such as the death of the Sapa Inca or during a famine.
  • These sacrifices were known as capacocha.

• Painting

  • A final image, found in the peristyle, depicts the Sacrifice of Iphigenia .
  • Fresco scene of the Sacrifice of Iphigenia.