All false gods resemble Moloch, at least in the early phases of their careers, so it would be unreasonable to expect any form of idol-worship to become widespread without the accompaniment of human sacrifice.

These protists live as individual amoebae until starved, at which point they aggregate and form a multicellular fruiting body in which some cells sacrifice themselves to promote the survival of other cells in the fruiting body.

Likewise a popular Hindu ritual form of worship of North Malabar in Kerala, India is the Tabuh Rah blood offering to Theyyam gods, despite being forbidden in the Vedic philosophy of sattvic Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, Theyyam deities are propitiated through the cock sacrifice where the religious cockfight is a religious exercise of offering blood to the Theyyam gods.

Since the rule was reinstated in its present form, Gil Hodges of the Dodgers holds the record for most sacrifice flies in one season with 19, in 1954 ; Eddie Murray holds the record for most sacrifice flies in a career with 128.

An annual commemoration, in the form of a military parade, was held each year on Easter Sunday, culminating in a huge national celebration on the 50th anniversary in 1966. began to write of it in terms of a " blood sacrifice ".

In another of his myths, Prometheus establishes the form of animal sacrifice practiced in ancient Greek religion.

There are religious significance and aspects of the rooster and the cockfight which are exampled by the religious belief of Tabuh Rah, a religious and spiritual cockfight where a rooster is used in religious custom by allowing him to fight against another rooster in the Balinese Hinduism spiritual appeasement exercise of Tabuh Rah, a form of animal sacrifice, where ritual fights usually take place outside the temple and follow an ancient and complex ritual as set out in the sacred lontar manuscripts.

Another form of sacrifice involves the burning of Joss paper, or Hell Bank Notes, on the assumption that images thus consumed by the fire will reappear — not as a mere image, but as the actual item — in the spirit world, making them available for revered ancestors and departed loved ones.

Many other people had been buried with her, in a form of human sacrifice.

As such, it is a form of human sacrifice.

In fiction, a MacGuffin ( sometimes McGuffin or maguffin ) is a plot device in the form of some goal, desired object, or other motivator that the protagonist ( and sometimes the antagonist ) is willing to do and sacrifice almost anything to pursue, often with little or no narrative explanation as to why it is considered so desirable.

Though a Catholic ( lay or ordained ) receiving the Eucharist under either form ( bread or wine ) is receiving Christ " whole and entire "— his body, blood, soul, and divinity — the priest, who is acting in persona Christi, is required to receive under both species when offering Mass — not for the validity of his Communion, but for the fullness of the sacrifice of the Mass.

But at the same time, in the mystery of the Church as his Body, Christ has in a sense opened his own redemptive suffering to all human suffering " ( Salvifici Doloris 19 ; 24 ). Some Protestants reject the idea of the Eucharist as a sacrifice, inclining to see it as merely a holy meal ( even if they believe in a form of the real presence of Christ in the bread and wine, as Lutherans do ).

Even if not explicitly connected with religion, infliction of capital punishment has been described as a form of ritual human sacrifice.

The Romans practised various forms of human sacrifice ; from Etruscans ( or, according to other sources, Sabellians ), they adopted the original form of gladiatorial combat where the victim was slain in a ritual battle.

The sacrifice of a high-ranking male's slaves, concubines or servants upon his death ( called Xun Zang 殉葬 or Sheng Xun 生殉 ) was a more common form.

Allegations of human sacrifice have been made against the Jews generally in the form of accusations of child cannibalism or desecrating the eucharist.

" Gladiator sacrifice " is the name given to the form of sacrifice in which an especially courageous war captive was given mock weapons, tied to a large circular stone and forced to fight against a fully armed Aztec warrior.

As payment for bringing rain Cocijo frequently received human sacrifice, mostly in the form of children but also, less frequently, adults.

Hill intended the Stonehenge replica to express that modern warfare ( like Druid sacrifices as he understood them ) was a form of needless human sacrifice.

They may alternatively involve the sacrifice of ' a primal animal, which must be sacrificed in the cause of fertility or even creation ', while there is evidence that ' prehistoric mother worship in the form of fertility rites is tied to human sacrifice '.

Caste is a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy, hereditary transmission of a style of life which often includes an occupation, ritual status in a hierarchy, and social exclusion based on cultural notions of purity and pollution.

Many ancient cultures used adorned daggers in ritual and ceremonial purposes, a trend which continues to the present time in the form of art knives.

Eastern Greenlandic, at the opposite end of the Inuit range has had significant word replacement due to a unique form of ritual name avoidance.

Incorporating many houngans into the ranks of the Macoutes, his public recognition of Vodou and its practitioners and his private adherence to Vodou ritual, combined with his reputed private knowledge of magic and sorcery, enhanced his popular persona among the common people and served as a peculiar form of legitimization.

As many different traditions of Neopaganism use some variation on the handfasting ceremony, there is no universal ritual form that is followed, and the elements included are generally up to the couple being handfasted.

In cases where the couple belong to a specific religious or cultural tradition, there may be a specific form of the ritual used by all or most members of that particular tradition.

To acquire captives in times of peace, the Aztec resorted to a form of ritual warfare called flower war.

Near the end of World War II, the United States military invaded the Mariana Islands on June 15, 1944, beginning with the Battle of Saipan, which ended on July 9 with the Japanese commander committing seppuku ( a traditional Japanese form of ritual suicide ).

Before the Twelve Tables ( 754 – 449 BC ), private law comprised the Roman civil law ( ius civile Quiritium ) that applied only to Roman citizens, and was bonded to religion ; undeveloped, with attributes of strict formalism, symbolism, and conservatism, e. g. the ritual practice of mancipatio ( a form of sale ).

Likewise a popular Hindu ritual form of worship of North Malabar in Kerala, India is the Tabuh Rah blood offering to the Theyyam gods.

In a Tao religious aspect, to have a rooster fight another rooster, was the same in substance as a fire-renewal custom, where the rooster and the cockfight then takes its place as an indispensable spring ritual, and “ Taoism, which assessed it positively in this form, can be thought to have guaranteed its continued existence ”.

Another form of ritual cleanliness is avoidance, which means that a taboo is placed upon certain persons or acts.

" Theorising a new theatrical form that would be immediate and direct, that would link the unconscious minds of performers and spectators in a sort of ritual event, Artaud created the Theatre of Cruelty, in which emotions, feelings, and the metaphysical were expressed not through language but physically, creating a mythological, archetypal, allegorical vision, closely related to the world of dreams.

Each Unitarian congregation is at liberty to devise its own form of worship, though commonly, Unitarian services lack liturgy and ritual, while containing readings from many sources, which may include sermons, prayers, hymns and songs.

In other contexts, the spanking of an adult can be considered a playful gesture during a social ritual or as a form of entertainment.

However, should a group of Church of Satan members form a " magic circle " for purposes beyond basic social and ritual interaction, and should that circle remain healthy and active for a year and a day, the leader may apply to have it formalized as a Grotto and be chartered as Grotto Master.

Frank is obsessive about ritual and the form of things ; the Wasp Factory and the Sacrifice Poles are protective talismans, and divinatory in intent.

Sacred prostitution, temple prostitution, or religious prostitution is a sexual ritual consisting of prostitution or other sexual intercourse performed in the context of religious worship, often as a form of fertility rite.

It is a general belief among scholars that a form of " Sacred Marriage " ritual or Hieros gamos was staged between the king of a Sumerian city-state and the High Priestess of Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare, but to date there is no certain evidence that sexual intercourse was included.

The Jade from this culture is characterized by finely worked, large ritual jades such as Cong cylinders, Bi discs, Yue axes and also pendants and decorations in the form of chiseled open-work plaques, plates and representations of small birds, turtles and fish.

Likewise, the installation and care of any deity's form ( frequently appearing as a statue ) can involve daily ritual anointing.