"sacrifice" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- When the earth was dressed in green, they gathered under trees and sacrificed horses or oxen to honor God and then they assembled in the shape of a circle and drank kumiss (beverage of western and central Asia which is made from the fermented milk of a mare or camel -also koumiss-) together.
- The German historian Thietmar, Count of Merseburg wrote that the Daner had their main cult centre on Zealand at Lejre, where they gathered every nine years and sacrificed 99 people but also horses, dogs and hens.
- However the oldest witness to this worship is Xenophon, who notes that the Armenians sacrificed horses to the sun, perhaps with some reference to his need of them in his daily course through the skies.
- But I think they just sacrifice horses.
- They sacrificed goats, horses, and human prisoners to Cariocecus, god of war.
- They worship their gods Odin and Tyr by sacrificing horses and rely on seers who foretell the future and serve as psychic news-gatherers.
- He remembered an old tale of the ancestors who had sacrificed horses to the gods before they had come to know that horses were the gods walking on earth and that to kill them was sacrilege.
- Achilles sheared off his hair, and sacrificed horses, dogs, and twelve Trojan captives before placing Patroclus' body on the funeral pyre.
- They were used to sacrifice horses to their goddess Reitia or to the mythical hero Diomedes.
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