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Human sacrifice was not a particularly common occurrence among the Germanic peoples, being resorted to in exceptional situations arising from crises of an environmental ( crop failure, drought, famine ) or social ( war ) nature, often thought to derive at least in part from the failure of the king to establish and / or maintain prosperity and peace ( árs ok friðar ) in the lands entrusted to him.
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Human sacrifice was usually by beheading, except in the case of the king's wives, who were buried alive.
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* Tollund Man, Human sacrifice victim on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, possibly the earliest known evidence for worship of Odin
Human sacrifice as shown in the Aztec codices # Codex Magliabechiano | Codex Magliabechiano
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Human sacrifice, the burning of incense, violent and ecstatic exercises, ceremonial acts of bowing and kissing, the preparing of sacred cakes ( see also Asherah ), appear among the offences denounced by the post-Exilic prophets ; and show that the cult of Baʿal ( and ʿAshtart ) included characteristic features of worship which recur in various parts of the Semitic ( and non-Semitic ) world, although attached to other names.
Human sacrifice was practiced by many ancient cultures.
* Human sacrifice to accompany the dedication of a new temple or bridge.
* Human sacrifice in times of natural disaster.
Human sacrifice still happens today as an underground practice in some traditional religions, for example in muti killings.
Human sacrifice is no longer officially condoned in any country, and these cases are regarded as murder.
Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more human beings as part of a religious ritual ( ritual killing ).
Human sacrifice has been practised in various cultures throughout history.
Human sacrifice has been practised on a number of different occasions and in many different cultures.
Human sacrifice is intended to bring good fortune and to pacify the gods, for example in the context of the dedication of a completed building like a temple or bridge.
Human sacrifice can also have the intention of winning the gods ' favour in warfare.
Human sacrifice may be a ritual practised in a stable society, and may even be conductive to enhance societal bonds ( see Sociology of religion ), both by creating a bond unifying the sacrificing community, and in combining human sacrifice and capital punishment, by removing individuals that have a negative effect on societal stability ( criminals, religious heretics, foreign slaves or prisoners of war ).
Human sacrifice once abolished is typically replaced by either animal sacrifice, or by the " mock-sacrifice " of effigies, such as the Argei in ancient Rome.
Human sacrifice was also practised by the Manchus.
Human sacrifice, including cannibalism, was thought practiced in Tibet prior to the arrival of Buddhism in the 7th century.
Human and animal sacrifice became less common during the post-Vedic period, as ahimsa ( non-violence ) became part of mainstream religious thought.
Human sacrifice was common in West African states up to and during the 19th century.
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Human nature was not a piece of meat you could tell was bad by its smell.
Human labor was exactly that -- a commodity -- in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America.
Human birth was no novelty to Mr. Robards.
He was a regent for the French Foundation for the Study of Human Problems during the Nazi occupation of Vichy France which implemented the eugenics policies there ; his association with the Foundation led to allegations of collaborating with the Nazis.
This definition was adopted by the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in The Despouy Report on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty.
It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in London in 1739 – 40.
This replica was discovered in a cave by a Swedish German missionary named Harald von Sicard in the 1940s and eventually found its way to the Museum of Human Science in Harare.
In 1970 he, along with Valery Chalidze and Andrei Tverdokhlebov, was one of the founders of the Committee on Human Rights in the USSR and came under increasing pressure from the government.
It is the sequel to Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human, which was a sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner, and the book on which the film was based, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?.
Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human ( 1995 ) is a novel by K. W. Jeter, and a continuation of both the film Blade Runner, and the novel upon which it was based, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
* Blade Runner < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Sebastian was based on Electric Sheep < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Isidore, though Jeter features them as separate characters in The Edge of Human.
* Sebastian was stated as being dead in the movie, yet he is alive in The Edge of Human.
* Pris was clearly stated as being a replicant in both the movie and the original novel, yet The Edge of Human claims she was human.
* took a strong line on the right of return for refugees to properties vacated in the 1974 displacement of Cypriots on both sides, which was based on both UN Resolutions and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights ;
In 1924, Chicago was the first American city to have a homosexual-rights organization, the Society for Human Rights.
On the 15 February 2001, the Human Genome Project consortium published the first Human Genome in the journal Nature, and was followed, one day later, by a Celera publication in Science.
Despite some claims that shotgun sequencing was in some ways less accurate than the clone-by-clone method chosen by the Human Genome Project, the technique became widely accepted by the scientific community and is still the de facto standard used today.
After contributing to the Human Genome, and its release into the public domain, Venter was fired by Celera in early 2002.
The first center for gender studies was opened within a newly formed Institute for the Socio − Economic Study of Human Population.
The board complained that Pfeiffer was too removed from management and the troops, as he surrounded himself with a " clique " of Chief Financial Officer Earl Mason, Senior Vice-President John Rose, and Human Resources Chief Hans Gutsch.
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