ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

is linked not with the cultures of the hunter­gatherers but withthose of the cultivator.” 19According to authors Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor,human sacrifice “undoubtedly occurred under the Great Mother.” 20“From the beginning there was a primary human perception thatour living is sustained by death; by the death of other life forms,animal or vegetable. For all the world was seen to be alive, andhumans lived by eating the world. The Mother’s creatures lived byeating each other, within her body. There is a kind of ontologicalpain in this perception that can be resolved only through ritual,which was always a fusion of sex and eating, of fertility and death,of life through death and vice versa.” 2119Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 th ed., s.v. “Sacrifice.”20Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor, The Great Cosmic Mother:Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth, 2 nd ed. (New York:HarperSanFrancisco, 1991), 178.21Ibid.97