Name: Homo Necans

Full name: Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth

Author: Walter Burkert
Year: 1972
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History, Anthology, Non Fiction, Religion, Philosophy

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9780520058750
0520058755
Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study.
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