Offering And Sacrifice An Essay in Comparative Customs And Religious Developme
Offering And Sacrifice An Essay in Comparative Customs And Religious Developme
Alexander H Alexander Hay Japp
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" " We have already spoken of the human skeletons found in the debris about the acropolis graves, and 1 Burma Census, p. 69. Human sacrifices were made up to comparative!}^ recent times by the wild tribes of the Santal Pergunas. - "The Mycenaean Age, " by Dr. Christos Tsountas and J. Irving iJanatt, LL. D. , p 97. 71 OFFERING AND SACRIFICE. not infrequently bodies are found buried in the passages of the chamber-tombs. Indeed in one of these, six entire skeletons lay crosswise before the doorway... at different depths. As indications go to show that they were all buried at one time, we assume that they were slain on purpose to accompany their master to Hades, for it is certainly impossible that six slaves or captives — and such they must have been to be excluded from burial in the chamber — should have simultaneously met a natural death. The woman buried in the dromos of the Clytemnestra tomb must have been a slave, and one highly prized. . . . This pit - grave, which is without either covering or revetment, is cut directly in the dromos floor, show^ing that the w^ork was done while the passage was clear.
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