Sacrifice - Ritual, Offering, Ancient

Sacrifice - Ritual, Offering, Ancient: In many cults, sacrifices are distinguished by frequency of performance into two types, regular and special. Regular sacrifices may be daily, weekly, monthly, or seasonal (as at planting, harvest, and New Year). Also often included are sacrifices made at specific times in each man’s life—birth, puberty, marriage, and death. Offerings made on special occasions and for special intentions have included, for example, sacrifices in times of danger, sickness, or crop failure and those performed at the construction of a building, for success in battle, or in thanksgiving for a divine favour. In the Vedic cult the regular sacrifices were daily

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Italy, Pompeii. Altar of the Temple of Vespasian, 1st century AD. Relief depicting a ritual sacrifice of a bull. A priest performs a ceremonial offering. Behind, two lictors and a flute player.

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Sacrifice in the Roman World

honor the gods — An offering of incense at an altar during a

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