Human Sacrifice
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Human Sacrifice the idea
human sacrifice
in the texts
Protrepticus
Recurring practice, catalogued at length, of various peoples sacrificing human victims to gods later reclassified by Clement as bloodthirsty demons.
Come, then, let us add this also, that your gods are inhuman and man-hating demons, who not only rejoice over the madness of men, but also take their pleasure in the slaying of men;
For the murder does not become a sacrifice because of the place, not even if a man should slaughter a man to Artemis and Zeus in what is supposed to be a sacred spot, rather than in wrath and love of money, to other like demons, at altars or in the roads, calling it a sacrifice:
Minos
The ritual killing of humans, held unholy at Athens but legal and holy among the Carthaginians, cited as evidence of differing law across peoples.
With us, for instance, human sacrifice is not legal, but unholy, whereas the Carthaginians perform it as a thing they account holy and legal, and that too when some of them sacrifice even their own sons to Cronos, as I daresay you yourself have heard.