What kinds of sacrifice were performed in Mayan civilization?
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Sacrifice was a religious activity in Maya culture, involving either the killing of animals or the bloodletting by members of the community, inrituals superintended by priests. Sacrifice has been a feature of almost all pre-modern societies at some stage of their development and for broadly the same reason: to propitiate or fulfill a perceived obligation towards the gods.
Sacrifice was a religious activity in Maya culture, involving either the killing of animals or the bloodletting by members of the community, in rituals superintended by priests. Sacrifice has been a feature of almost all pre-modern societies at some stage of their development and for broadly the same reason: to propitiate or fulfill a perceived obligation towards the gods.
Sacrifice was a religious activity in Maya culture, involving either the killing of animals or the bloodletting by members of the community, in rituals superintended by priests. Sacrifice has been a feature of almost all pre-modern societies at some stage of their development and for broadly the same reason: to propitiate or fulfill a perceived obligation towards the gods.
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Human sacrifice in the form of decapitation and heart removal was performed in Mayan civilization.
The people of Mayan civilization believed that sacrificing the lives as nourishment to the god will make their god happy and shower them with their blessings.
Among the sacrifice of different living creature, human sacrifice was more common and was always chosen as best among all types of sacrifices. They sacrificed the lives of kings and other people of high status who they capture and people of low status are left unharmed and made as their labour.
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