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Sb70012 Posted 13 years ago
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Its most common defense, Human Sacrifice
Horrors lurked in the primeval forest, not nymphs and naiads. Terror lived there, with its close attendant, Magic, and its most common defense, Human Sacrifice. Mankind’s chief hope of escaping the wrath of whatever divinities were then abroad lay in some magical rite, senseless but powerful, or in some offering made at the cost of pain and grief.
Source: Mythology [http://www.scribd.com/doc/105915835/Edith-Hamilton-Mythology] = second paragraph
Hi,
I can't understand the blue part very well. This is my paraphrase:
[and its most common defense was human sacrifice] = means that the most common way to defend them was to be killed while encountering them
Am I right?
Source: Mythology [http://www.scribd.com/doc/105915835/Edith-Hamilton-Mythology] = second paragraph
Hi,
I can't understand the blue part very well. This is my paraphrase:
[and its most common defense was human sacrifice] = means that the most common way to defend them was to be killed while encountering them
Am I right?
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sb70012 the blue part ... the most common way to defend them was to be killed while encountering them No. You've got it wrong.
- sb70012 the blue part ...
- the most common way to defend them was to be killed while encountering them No.
- You've got it wrong.
- To defend themselves against the terror and bad magic that they perceived in the forest, mankind developed rituals in which people were ceremonially killed.
- CJ
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sb70012the blue part ... the most common way to defend them was to be killed while encountering themNo. You've got it wrong.
To defend themselves against the terror and bad magic that they perceived in the forest, mankind developed rituals in which people were ceremonially killed.
CJ
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No.
I read it to mean that Mankind's most common defense against terror was human sacrifice..
In other words, Mankind offered human sacrifices in order to keep away the terror that 'lived there'.
The next sentence in the text indicates that such
I read it to mean that Mankind's most common defense against terror was human sacrifice..
In other words, Mankind offered human sacrifices in order to keep away the terror that 'lived there'.
The next sentence in the text indicates that such
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Human sacrifice was practiced in many cultures across the globe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice
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