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SOURCE OR PARALLEL URANTIA PAPER 89§295.* Redemption and Covenant. (Sumner& Keller 1263)Where a person volunteers to serve assacrifice, we have what might be calledreligious suicide. Such is the case amongsome primitive tribes in China where avoluntary human sacrifice is offered, insome cases annually, so as to preserve thegroup from disease, hunger, and distress(S&K IV 680).Among certain backward tribes, humansacrifice is still carried on by volunteers,a sort of religious or ritual suicide.§294.* Nature of the Offering. (Sumner &Keller 1251)The Chukchi are devoted toshamanism. In 1814, on the appearance ofa contagion affecting men and reindeer,the shamans called for a human sacrificeas the only recourse, naming one of themost respected and beloved elderly menof the tribe.The people would not kill him but, as thedisease did not abate, the old mandevoted himself for his people. Nobodywould execute him until finally his ownson, at his command, put the knife intohis breast (S&K 1254).A shaman once ordered the sacrifice of amuch respected old man of a certain tribe.The people revolted; they refused toobey. Whereupon the old man had hisown son dispatch him;the ancients really believed in thiscustom.89:6.3 There is no more tragic andpathetic experience on record, illustrativeof the heart-tearing contentions betweenancient and time-honored religiouscustoms and the contrary demands ofadvancing civilization, than[The cases of the intended sacrifice of Isaacand that of Jephtha’s daughter will occur to thereader of the Old Testament; and the fact that childsacrificeis forbidden witnesses to its existence(S&K 1255).]the Hebrew narrative of Jephthah and hisonly daughter.As was common custom,36