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89:6.1 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice Human sacrifice] was an indirect result of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism cannibalism] as well as its [[cure]]. Providing spirit escorts to the spirit world also led to the lessening of man-eating as it was never the custom to eat these [[death]] [[sacrifices]]. No [[race]] has been entirely [[free]] from the [[practice]] of human [[sacrifice]] in some form and at some time, even though the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:4._THE_ANDONIC_CLANS Andonites], [[Nodites]], and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:2._THE_ADAMITES_IN_THE_SECOND_GARDEN Adamites] were the least [[addicted]] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism cannibalism].

89:6.1 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice Human sacrifice] was an indirect result of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism cannibalism] as well as its [[cure]]. Providing spirit escorts to the spirit world also led to the lessening of man-eating as it was never the custom to eat these [[death]] [[sacrifices]]. No [[race]] has been entirely [[free]] from the [[practice]] of human [[sacrifice]] in some form and at some time, even though the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:4._THE_ANDONIC_CLANS Andonites], [[Nodites]], and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:2._THE_ADAMITES_IN_THE_SECOND_GARDEN Adamites] were the least [[addicted]] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism cannibalism].

89:6.2 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice Human sacrifice] has been virtually [[universal]]; it [[persisted]] in the religious [[customs]] of the [[Chinese]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism Hindus], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Egyptians], [[Hebrews]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamians], [[Greeks]], [[Romans]], and many other peoples, even on to recent times among the backward African and Australian tribes. The later [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas American Indians] had a [[civilization]] emerging from cannibalism and, therefore, steeped in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice human sacrifice], especially in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_peoples Central] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca South America]. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldeans Chaldeans] were among the first to abandon the sacrificing of [[humans]] for ordinary occasions, substituting therefor [[animals]]. About two thousand years ago a tenderhearted [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_Emperors Japanese emperor] introduced clay images to take the place of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice human sacrifices], but it was less than a thousand years ago that these [[sacrifices]] died out in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Europe northern Europe]. Among certain backward [[tribes]], human sacrifice is still carried on by [[volunteers]], a sort of [[religious]] or [[ritual]] [[suicide]]. A [[shaman]] once ordered the [[sacrifice]] of a much respected old man of a certain tribe. The people revolted; they refused to [[obey]]. Whereupon the old man had his own son dispatch him; the [[ancients]] really believed in this [[custom]].

89:6.2 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice Human sacrifice] has been virtually [[universal]]; it [[persisted]] in the religious [[customs]] of the [[Chinese]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism Hindus], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Egyptians], [[Hebrews]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamians], [[Greeks]], [[Romans]], and many other peoples, even on to recent times among the backward African and Australian tribes. The later [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas American Indians] had a [[civilization]] emerging from cannibalism and, therefore, steeped in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice human sacrifice], especially in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_peoples Central] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca South America]. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldeans Chaldeans] were among the first to abandon the sacrificing of [[humans]] for ordinary occasions, substituting therefor [[animals]]. About two thousand years ago a tenderhearted [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_Emperors Japanese emperor] introduced clay images to take the place of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice human sacrifices], but it was less than a thousand years ago that these [[sacrifices]] died out in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Europe northern Europe]. Among certain backward [[tribes]], human sacrifice is still carried on by [[volunteers]], a sort of [[religious]] or [[ritual]] [[suicide]]. A [[shaman]] once ordered the [[sacrifice]] of a much respected old man of a certain tribe. The people revolted; they refused to [[obey]]. Whereupon the old man had his own son dispatch him; the [[ancients]] really believed in this [[custom]].

89:6.3 There is no more [[tragic]] and pathetic [[experience]] on [[record]], [[illustrative]] of the [[heart]]-tearing contentions between [[ancient]] and time-honored [[religious]] [[customs]] and the contrary demands of advancing [[civilization]], than the [[Hebrew]] [[narrative]] of Jephthah and his only daughter. As was common [[custom]], this well-meaning man had made a foolish [[vow]], had bargained with the "god of battles,"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Judges#Chapter_11] agreeing to pay a certain price for victory over his enemies. And this price was to make a [[sacrifice]] of that which first came out of his house to meet him when he returned to his home. Jephthah thought that one of his trusty [[slaves]] would thus be on hand to greet him, but it turned out that his daughter and only child came out to [[welcome]] him [[home]]. And so, even at that late date and among a supposedly [[civilized]] people, this [[beautiful]] [[maiden]], after two months to mourn her fate, was actually offered as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice human sacrifice] by her father, and with the approval of his fellow tribesmen. And all this was done in the face of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses]' stringent rulings against the offering of human sacrifice. But men and women are [[addicted]] to making foolish and needless [[vows]], and the men of old held all such pledges to be highly [[sacred]].

89:6.3 There is no more [[tragic]] and pathetic [[experience]] on [[record]], [[illustrative]] of the [[heart]]-tearing contentions between [[ancient]] and time-honored [[religious]] [[customs]] and the contrary demands of advancing [[civilization]], than the [[Hebrew]] [[narrative]] of Jephthah and his only daughter. As was common [[custom]], this well-meaning man had made a foolish [[vow]], had bargained with the "god of battles,"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Judges#Chapter_11] agreeing to pay a certain price for victory over his enemies. And this price was to make a [[sacrifice]] of that which first came out of his house to meet him when he returned to his home. Jephthah thought that one of his trusty [[slaves]] would thus be on hand to greet him, but it turned out that his daughter and only child came out to [[welcome]] him [[home]]. And so, even at that late date and among a supposedly [[civilized]] people, this [[beautiful]] [[maiden]], after two months to mourn her fate, was actually offered as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice human sacrifice] by her father, and with the approval of his fellow tribesmen. And all this was done in the face of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses]' stringent rulings against the offering of human sacrifice. But men and women are [[addicted]] to making foolish and needless [[vows]], and the men of old held all such pledges to be highly [[sacred]].

89:6.4 In olden times, when a new building of any importance was started, it was [[customary]] to slay a [[human being]] as a "[[foundation]] [[sacrifice]]." This provided a [[ghost]] spirit to watch over and [[protect]] the [[structure]]. When the [[Chinese]] made ready to cast a bell, [[custom]] decreed the [[sacrifice]] of at least one [[maiden]] for the [[purpose]] of improving the tone of the bell; the girl chosen was thrown alive into the molten metal.

89:6.4 In olden times, when a new building of any importance was started, it was [[customary]] to slay a [[human being]] as a "[[foundation]] [[sacrifice]]." This provided a [[ghost]] spirit to watch over and [[protect]] the [[structure]]. When the [[Chinese]] made ready to cast a bell, [[custom]] decreed the [[sacrifice]] of at least one [[maiden]] for the [[purpose]] of improving the tone of the bell; the girl chosen was thrown alive into the molten metal.

89:6.5 It was long the [[practice]] of many [[groups]] to build [[slaves]] alive into important walls. In later times the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Europe northern European] [[tribes]] substituted the walling in of the [[shadow]] of a passerby for this [[custom]] of entombing living persons in the walls of new buildings. The [[Chinese]] buried in a wall those workmen who died while constructing it.

89:6.5 It was long the [[practice]] of many [[groups]] to build [[slaves]] alive into important walls. In later times the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Europe northern European] [[tribes]] substituted the walling in of the [[shadow]] of a passerby for this [[custom]] of entombing living persons in the walls of new buildings. The [[Chinese]] buried in a wall those workmen who died while constructing it.

89:6.6 A petty king in [[Palestine]], in building the walls of Jericho, "laid the foundation thereof in Abiram, his first-born, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son, Segub."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=First_Book_of_Kings#Chapter_16] At that late date, not only did this [[father]] put two of his sons alive in the [[foundation]] holes of the city's gates, but his [[action]] is also recorded as being "according to the word of the Lord."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=First_Book_of_Kings#Chapter_16] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] had forbidden these [[foundation]] [[sacrifices]], but the Israelites reverted to them soon after his [[death]]. The twentieth-century [[ceremony]] of depositing trinkets and keepsakes in the cornerstone of a new building is reminiscent of the [[primitive]] [[foundation]] [[sacrifices]].

89:6.6 A petty king in [[Palestine]], in building the walls of Jericho, "laid the foundation thereof in Abiram, his first-born, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son, Segub."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=First_Book_of_Kings#Chapter_16] At that late date, not only did this [[father]] put two of his sons alive in the [[foundation]] holes of the city's gates, but his [[action]] is also recorded as being "according to the word of the Lord."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=First_Book_of_Kings#Chapter_16] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] had forbidden these [[foundation]] [[sacrifices]], but the Israelites reverted to them soon after his [[death]]. The twentieth-century [[ceremony]] of depositing trinkets and keepsakes in the cornerstone of a new building is reminiscent of the [[primitive]] [[foundation]] [[sacrifices]].

89:6.7 It was long the [[custom]] of many peoples to [[dedicate]] the first fruits to the spirits. And these observances, now more or less [[symbolic]], are all [[survivals]] of the early [[ceremonies]] involving [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice human sacrifice]. The [[idea]] of offering the first-born as a [[sacrifice]] was widespread among the [[ancients]], especially among the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicia Phoenicians], who were the last to give it up. It used to be said upon sacrificing, "life for life."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Exodus#Chapter_.21] Now you say at [[death]], "dust to dust."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Ecclesiastes#Chapter_.3]

89:6.7 It was long the [[custom]] of many peoples to [[dedicate]] the first fruits to the spirits. And these observances, now more or less [[symbolic]], are all [[survivals]] of the early [[ceremonies]] involving [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice human sacrifice]. The [[idea]] of offering the first-born as a [[sacrifice]] was widespread among the [[ancients]], especially among the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicia Phoenicians], who were the last to give it up. It used to be said upon sacrificing, "life for life."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Exodus#Chapter_.21] Now you say at [[death]], "dust to dust."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Ecclesiastes#Chapter_.3]

89:6.8 The [[spectacle]] of [[Abraham]] constrained to sacrifice his son [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac Isaac], while shocking to civilized susceptibilities, was not a new or strange [[idea]] to the men of those days. It was long a prevalent [[practice]] for [[fathers]], at times of great [[emotional]] [[stress]], to sacrifice their first-born sons. Many peoples have a [[tradition]] [[analogous]] to this [[story]], for there once existed a world-wide and [[profound]] [[belief]] that it was [[necessary]] to offer a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice human sacrifice] when anything extraordinary or unusual happened.

89:6.8 The [[spectacle]] of [[Abraham]] constrained to sacrifice his son [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac Isaac], while shocking to civilized susceptibilities, was not a new or strange [[idea]] to the men of those days. It was long a prevalent [[practice]] for [[fathers]], at times of great [[emotional]] [[stress]], to sacrifice their first-born sons. Many peoples have a [[tradition]] [[analogous]] to this [[story]], for there once existed a world-wide and [[profound]] [[belief]] that it was [[necessary]] to offer a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice human sacrifice] when anything extraordinary or unusual happened.

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