Sacrifice Collection (page 3)

AZTEC SACRIFICE
Aztec priests of Mexico sacrifice prisoners to their gods, extracting their hearts and throwing the rest down the temple steps

SUTTEE IN 1951
When police at Rajadhar, India, try to prevent a widow from joining her husband on his funeral pyre, they provoke a riot Date: 1951

CAPTAIN COOK IN TAHITI
At Tahiti, Cook and his companions watch a human sacrifice Date: 1769

Human sacrifice
Priests and others watch as a victim burns in ancient Scandinavia. Date: 1555

Priests of Tenochtitlan Sacrifice Victims to their Gods
Aztecs of Mexico- Priests of Tenochtitlan sacrifice victims to their gods Date: circa 1500

Human Sacrifices Thrown from Platform by Priests
Aztecs of Mexico- Priests at Tenochtitlan cut the heart from a still- living victim then fling the carcase from the platform Date: circa 1500

Druids build a wicker man for sacrifice
The Wicker Man In which people were burnt as sacrifices to their deities

A patriotic cast iron frying pan with German soldier
A patriotic cast iron frying pan with a German soldier shaking the hand of a German woman in relief on the handle. Embossed around the diameter with Der Deutschen frau opfersinn

WATCHING DAHOMEY SACRIF
DAHOMEY Europeans watch the sacrifice of captives and criminals, thankful they are not themselves the stars of the show Date: 1835

HUMAN SACRIIFICE, TAHITI
Human sacrifice at a temple at Tahiti, Pacific Date: 1806

BASKET SACRIFICE, DAHOMEY
In the Basket Sacrifice of Dahomey, captives from other tribes are tied in a basket and thrown down from a tower to the eager crowd below... Date: circa 1860

INDIAN INFANTICIDE
A child is sacrificed in the Temple of Ganesh, Benares, India Date: circa 1850

ANCIENT ITALIAN ANPHORA
An Amphora of Cervetri representing a sacrifice. Cervetri is an ancient stronghold of Etruvia. Date: circa 100 BC

Roman Sacrifice a Bull
A Roman priest prepares to sacrifice a bull in front of his temple, while an acolyte blows a horn

VESTALS SACRIFICING
Roman Vestal Virgins make a sacrifice, probably of precious spices

SACRIFICE AT TEMPLE
Sacrifice at the Temple of Jupiter

OFFERING HEART TO GOD
Thus should the Pious Christian make an Offering of his Heart to God, as twere on a burning Altar of Sacrifice Date: 17th century

Ancient altar
Burnt offering to the Gods, unusually a sheep or oxen. Date: Ancient

BIRTH OF APICULTURE
The birth of Apiculture: when heifers are sacrificed, bees swarm from them; a gift from the gods to the pious. Date: First published: 29 BC

SPIRIT SACRIFICE TO WINE
Man in drunken stupor, surrounded by bacchic cherubs, preferring earthly pleasure of wine to heavenly promises

EVENTS / PACIFIC / COOK
While at Tahiti he and his companions watch a human sacrifice Date: 1769

Bransby Williams as Sydney Carton, A Tale of Two Cities
Bransby Williams as Sydney Carton, in the Noble Deed, a theatre production based on the Dickens novel, A Tale of Two Cities. circa 1898

Niagara Falls, USA - Indian Sacrifice
Niagara Falls, USA - Dramatic illustration of an Indian Sacrifice over the top of the falls. Date: 1913

Hishams Palace. 8th century AD. Khirbat al-Mafjar, near Jericho. Was built by Waild Ibn Yazid in 734 AD, during the reign of Caliph Hisham Ibn Abdelmalik (724-743 AD). Stucco dome of the diwan

Hishams Palace. Human figure sculpture. Stucco. Khirbat al
Hishams Palace. 8th century AD. Khirbat al-Mafjar, near Jericho. Was built by Waild Ibn Yazid in 734 AD, during the reign of Caliph Hisham Ibn Abdelmalik (724-743 AD). Human figure sculpture. Stucco

Abraham and Isaac carrying the wood for the sacrifice. Engra
Old Testament. Book of Genesis. Abraham and Isaac. Patriarchs of Israel. Abraham and Isaac carrying the wood for the sacrifice. Chapter XXII, verses 13 to 8. Dore drawing. Engraving by Laplante

Minoan Art. The Hagia Triada Sarcophagus. Painted with scene
Minoan Art. Crete. The Hagia Triada Sarcophagus. Painted with scenes from Cretan life. Ritual. Bull sacrifice. Woman wearing a crown is carrying two vessels. A man playing a seven string lyre

Skull of a young girl. 18-20 years old. 3500-3400 BC. Sigersdal Mose, Northern Zealand. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Early Christian art. Spain. Sarcophagus decorated with scenes from the Old and New Testaments. From right to left: Sacrifice of Isaac, Jesus speaks to Zacchaeus climbed on the fig tree

Virtues win to Vices. Flemish tapestry 1510 c
Crucifixion and Virtues win the battle to Vices. ca. 1510. Victory due to the sacrifice of Christ. Cloth number 7 of the series known as Redemption of Man or Vices and Virtues

Indian Sacrifices
Khond (or Kandh) human sacrifice in India : a girl is garlanded, bound to a stake, then slaughtered to please the gods Date: 19th century

Monloch Ammonities
MOLOCH, the god of the Ammonites, an Asian people chronically at war with the Israelites who allege that parents sacrifice their children in its furnace-belly

Druids Sacrifice Child
A child is sacrificed to the Druid deity

Stone Jaguar Oceloti Cuauhxicalli Aztec - Mexico
An Aztec Jaguar-shaped receptacle for the hearts of sacrifice victims, Templo Mayor ( Great Temple ), Tenochtitlan, Mexico City, Mexico. Date: circa 1930

In the Street of Abundance at Pompeii by Matania
A special reconstruction series of ancient Pompeii by Fortunino Matania for The Sphere. Here, in the Via Dell Abbondanza, a wealthy street in the city, is a sacrificial shrine, where anyone

America. Florida. 16th century. Ritual dedicated to the sun god. Sacrifice deer skin. Engraving, 1850. Color

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Dutch painter and etcher. The Sacrifi
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669) Dutch painter and etcher.The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1636. Alte Pinakothek. Munich. Germany

Greek art. Munich Votive Relief. About 200 BC. Family about
Greek art. Munich Votive Relief. About 200 BC. In a idyllic landscape a family about to make a sacrifice approaches the god, seated on a throne, and his companion. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany

Pre-Columbian art. Lintel 15 from Yaxchilan, Late Classic Ma
Pre-Columbian art. Central America. Maya. Lintel 15 from Yaxchilan, Late Classic Maya. 8th century. British Museum, London

Bronze Age. Four interlaced plaits. From Farup at Vindum, central Jutland. C. 350 BC. National Museum of Denmark

Sacrifice, Madagascar
MADAGASCAR A wife grieves as her captive husband awaits the moment when the fire is good and ready and he will be sacrificed. Date: circa 1840

Hagia Triada Sarcophagus. ca. 1450 BC - 1400 BC. Painted terra-cotta. Ritual sacrifice of a calf. Minoan art / Cretan art. Late Minoan period. Painting. GREECE. CRETE. IRAKLION. Iraklion

Sacrifice of Isaac, 1527-1532. Polychrome sculpture by Alonso Berruguete. It belongs to the Altarpiece of San Benito el Real (Valladolid). Renaissance art. Sculpture on wood. SPAIN. CASTILE AND LEON

Codex Magliabecchi. Ritual human sacrifice to god Huitzilopochtli. Aztec art. Miniature Painting

Mastaba of Ti. EGYPT. Saqqara. Mastaba of Ti

The Legend of the Royal Axe
The body of Hiram was buried under the alter of the Temple and Solomon, abandonning the cult of Adonis, sacrificed to Moloch, the god Tyrian. 1890s

Sacrifices to Baal
In the ancient Near East, captives are led to the temple of Baal, there to be slaughtered to please the god. Date: 1907

England Stonehenge
Celebrating a grand conventional festival at Stonehenge : priests and bards perform their functions, oxen drag the Avane, containing a monster from the lake. Date: BCE

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