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Sacrifice is an element in many religious traditions and often represented in myths.

In The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming lists the story of Abraham and Isaac and the story of Christ's death as examples of this theme.

Wendy Doniger describes the gospel accounts as a " meta-myth " in which Jesus realizes that he is part of a " new myth [...] of a man who is sacrificed in hate " but " sees the inner myth, the old myth of origins and acceptance, the myth of a god who sacrifices himself in love ".