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SOURCE OR PARALLEL URANTIA PAPER 89XXXVI: HUMAN SACRIFICE (Sumner& Keller 1251)§294.* Nature of the Offering. (Sumner &Keller 1251)6. EVOLUTION OF HUMANSACRIFICE89:6.1 Human sacrifice was an indirectresult of cannibalism as well as its cure.There has already come before us a typeof human sacrifice that is neither directlynor indirectly connected with man-eating:the provision of an escort for the dead tothe spirit-world (S&K 1251).Providing spirit escorts to the spirit worldalso led to the lessening of man-eating asit was never the custom to eat these deathsacrifices.It is astonishing to one who holds thecurrent notions about human sacrifice toread that “there is not a people that hasnot practised this custom at some periodor other of its history.No race has been entirely free from thepractice of human sacrifice in some formand at some time,even though the Andonites, Nodites, andAdamites were the least addicted tocannibalism.89:6.2 Human sacrifice has beenvirtually universal;Hindus, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, evenIsraelites, differ, in this matter, from thenegroes of our own times in nothing savethe object they assign to this kind ofsacrifice. The longer the matter is studied,the less is one inclined to balk at thisuniversal” (S&K 1251).it persisted in the religious customs of theChinese, Hindus, Egyptians, Hebrews,Mesopotamians, Greeks, Romans, andmany other peoples, even on to recenttimes among the backward African andAustralian tribes.34
SOURCE OR PARALLEL URANTIA PAPER 89An author from whom we havequoted in the text goes into detail thatreveals the connection [among the Aztecsand the Maya in Mexico, and inNicaragua] of such sacrifices withcannibalism (S&K IV 674).In Chaldæa of the most ancientperiods there were human sacrifices; butlater they became rare and animals wereused instead (S&K IV 675).The later American Indians had acivilization emerging from cannibalismand, therefore, steeped in humansacrifice, especially in Central and SouthAmerica.The Chaldeans were among the first toabandon the sacrificing of humans forordinary occasions, substituting thereforanimals.§297.* Survivals of Human Sacrifice.(Sumner & Keller 1273)In Japan, “human sacrifice appears tohave been practiced, and, if we may judgeby the numerous legends handed down,was not entirely suppressed until longafter the period when clay images wereproduced as a substitute.” Legendascribes the substitute images to about thebeginning of the Christian era. Humansacrifice is said to have been abolishedthrough the compassion of the Emperor,when he heard the weeping and crying ofvictims who had been buried alive (S&K1276).About two thousand years ago atenderhearted Japanese emperorintroduced clay images to take the placeof human sacrifices,§294.* Nature of the Offering. (Sumner &Keller 1251)About 900 A.D., the Norsemen were in theOrkneys, and their leader, catching adefeated enemy “made them carve aneagle on his back with a sword and cutthe ribs all from the back-bone and drawthe lungs out, and gave him to Odin forthe victory he had won” (S&K 1256).but it was less than a thousand years agothat these sacrifices died out in northernEurope.35
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