The imagery was to represent religious sacrifice, magic, and self-empowerment.

A man could also sell his own daughter as a sexual slave or future religious sacrifice, generally for around 500 to 700 beans.

Phocion decided to offer many religious sacrifices before battle, until the gods were favourable.

Possibly it was a kind of voluntary religious sacrifice.

It has been suggested that religious sacrifice might have been performed within the Hongshan culture.

Brutus tries to elevate the murder into a religious sacrifice.

Cows are considered very valuable animals, not for their milk, but as religious sacrifices.

The forest is also of cultural importance to the Batwa, who offer religious sacrifices to their gods.

A holocaust is a religious sacrifice that is completely consumed by fire.

Did it make us more civilized that we didn't call it a religious sacrifice?