The Jin Dynasty had developed an alliance with the Tuoba against the Xiongnu state Han Zhao.

These four important branches, the Shiwei, Khitan, Murong and Tuoba all arose as discernible entities in the middle of the 3rd century just after the Xianbei Empire had fallen in 235.

Sometime during the process, Grand Empress Dowager Feng apparently became apprehensive of his abilities and therefore had him detained and considered deposing him in favor of his brother Tuoba Xi ( 拓拔禧 ), but after her attendants persuaded her otherwise, she did not carry out such actions.

In 391, Tuoba Gui defeated the Rouran tribes and killed their chief, Heduohan, forcing the Rouran to flee west.

The Tuoba Xianbei and Khitans were mostly Buddhists, although they still retained their original Tengriism.

The Tuoba ( Tabgach ) tribe started their rise with Tuoba Liwei ( 219-277 ) who was the ancestor of the future Northern Wei Dynasty and was thus posthumously honored as Emperor Shenyuan, with the temple name Shizu.

Tuoba clan was awarded by Chinese rulers as the leader of western Xianbei clans ( 西部大人 ) and its people adopted their clan name as their surname.

Among the Monguor settlement in Minhe, Qinghai today, the La and Bao Family Villages were accounted to have descended from " Tiebie ", indicating that they have derived their origins from the Tufa ( Tuoba ) Xianbei of the Southern Liang.

After Emperor Xiaowen of the nomadic Xianbei moved his capital to Luoyang in 494, his clan of Tuoba changed their surname to Yuan ( 元 ) to assimilate with the Chinese population.

* April 26 – Emperor Xiao Wen Di dies of starvation in his capital at Luoyang after a 27-year reign in which he has Sinicized his tribal relatives ( Tuoba clan ).

Besides these three Xianbei groups, there were other Xianbei groups with Mongolic affiliation such as the Murong, Duan and Tuoba.

In the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Tuoba brought troops to suppress the Huang Chao Rebellion on behalf of the Tang court and took control of the Xia State, or Xia Zhou, in northern Shaanxi in 881.

In the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Tuoba brought troops to suppress the Huangchao Rebellion on behalf of the Tang court and took control of the Xia State, or Xia Zhou, in northern Shaanxi in 881.

Geographically the Tuoba Xianbei ruled Inner Mongolia and northern China, the Nirun ( Yujiulu Shelun was the first to use the title Khagan in 402 ) ruled Outer Mongolia, the Khitan were concentrated in Southern Manchuria north of Korea and the Shiwei were located to the north of the Khitan.

The Tuoba were eventually absorbed into China.

The early Shiwei paid tribute to the Tuoba Wei ( 386-534 ) and submitted to the Khitans.

In 511 the Rouran Douluofubadoufa Khan sent Hong Xuan to the Tuoba court with a pearl-encrusted statue of the Buddha as a gift.

* Tuoba Heru launched a coup d ' état against his cousin Tuoba Yulü and becomes the new Prince of Dai.

* Tuoba Chuo succeeds his brother Tuoba Xilu as chieftain of the Tuoba clan.

* Tuoba Huang, prince of Northern Wei ( b. 428 )

* Tuoba Shiyijian, prince of the Tuoba Dai ( b. 320 )

* The ruler of the nomadic Tuoba tribal state in Northern China adopts a Chinese surname and will reign Northern Wei as emperor Xiao Wen Di until his death in 499.

The Northern Wei was established by the Tuoba clan of the Xianbei people in AD 386, when they united the northern part of China.

* Tuoba Huang, prince of the Xianbei state Northern Wei ( d. 451 )

* Tuoba Luguan divides the territory of the Tuoba clan into three areas.

* Tuoba Luguan succeeds his nepnew Tuoba Fu as chieftain of the Tuoba clan.

* Tuoba Fu succeeds his uncle Tuoba Chuo as chieftain of the Chinese Tuoba clan.

They maintain that what constitutes child abuse is a matter of objective fact, and that some of the practices which mainstream anthropologists apologize for ( e. g., sacrificial rituals ) may result in psychosis, dissociation and magical thinking: particularly for the surviving children who had a sacrificed brother or sister by their parents.

The flayed skins of sacrificial victims that had been worn by priests for the last twenty days were taken off and placed in these dark, magical caverns.

Every temple however had to have two fires of which one was a hearth ( Latin focus ), representative of the fire ( Latin foculus ) of Vesta as the hearth of the city, and the main was the sacrificial ara.

Judaism does not have clergy as such, although according to the Torah there is a tribe of priests known as the Kohanim who were leaders of the religion up to the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70AD when most Sadducees were wiped out ; each member of the tribe, a Kohen had priestly duties, many of which centered around the sacrificial duties, atonement and blessings of the Israelite nation.

Aware the difficulties in laying transatlantic cable had not yet been solved, Lindsay took a great interest in the debate, with the revolutionary suggestion of using electric arc welding to join cables, and sacrificial anodes to prevent corrosion.

Modigliani's behaviour at this time sheds some light upon his developing style as an artist, in that the studio had become almost a sacrificial effigy for all that he resented about the academic art that had marked his life and his training up to that point.

At the Paris Congress of the History of Religions in 1900, Ramakrishna's follower Swami Vivekananda argued that the Shiva-Linga had its origin in the idea of the Yupa-Stambha or Skambha — the sacrificial post, idealized in Vedic ritual as the symbol of the Eternal Brahman.

The sin offering required when a priest had sinned, for which there is a similar sacrificial animal as the Yom Kippur offering, is considered by scholars to be a much later development, and only added to the text of Leviticus in the latest stages of its compilation, after sin offerings had begun to be seen as being about atonement for actual sin rather than relatively immediate breaches of taboos.

The torture of war captives by the tribes of the Eastern Woodlands cultural region also seems to have had sacrificial motivations.

So when Pelopia, who at the time stayed in Sicyon at the court of king Thesprotus, came to the bank of a river to wash her clothes that had been stained with blood during a sacrificial rite, Thyestes, covering his face, attacked and raped her.

The flayed skins were often taken from sacrificial victims who had their hearts cut out, and some representations of Xipe Totec show a stitched-up wound in the chest.

Thompson himself was not expelled from the House of Representatives because he lost his re-election campaign in 1980 to Republican Chris Smith, a relatively unknown GOP candidate who in 1978 had run against Thompson as a sacrificial lamb candidate.

), while for the evening " Tefillah " recourse was had to artificial comparison with the sacrificial portions consumed on the altar during the night.

Paul had great love for Christ but was it is explained how the strained and partly broken relationship with the disciples who walked with Jesus, and the ingrained thoughts of sacrificial law working while he tried to figure out Jesus ' death, as well as Satan " at his side " to distort and deceive were all parts of the forming of what has come to be believed as the basis for salvation.

Ruchika desired a son having the qualities of a Brahmin, and so he gave Satyavati a sacrificial offering ( charu ) which he had prepared to achieve this objective.

Thereby in effect the Levites had dispossessed the non-priestly of Judah of swathes of their alloted patrimony by making a threefold profit out of the sacrificial system, and were daily accumulating more of the patrimony given by God to others, in addition to their proper income.

According to notes by the Qing Dynasty painter Luo Ping: " Yellow Emperor ordered his men to have Chi You beheaded ... seeing that Chi You's head was separated from his body, later sages had his image engraved on sacrificial vessels as a warning to those that would covet power and wealth.

Walter Burkert summarized modern revision of a too-facile and blurred identification of a god that was identical to his sacrificial victim, which had created suggestive analogies with the Christian Eucharist for an earlier generation of mythographers:

The sons of Sagara discover the stolen sacrificial horse grazing near Vasudeva, who had assumed the form of Kapila

In the latera (" sides ") were the Arae ( sacrificial altars ), the Auguratorium ( for auspices ), the Tribunal, where courts martial and arbitrations were conducted ( it had a raised platform ), the guardhouse, the quarters of various kinds of staff and the storehouses for grain ( horreae ) or meat ( carnarea ).

The wreck is currently protected against further corrosion by sacrificial anodes that had been attached to the hull.

The Holy of Holies was entered once a year by the High Priest on the Day of Atonement, to sprinkle the blood of sacrificial animals ( a bull offered as atonement for the Priest and his household, and a goat offered as atonement for the people ) and offer incense upon the Ark of the Covenant and the mercy seat which sat on top of the ark in the First Temple ( the Second Temple had no ark and the blood was sprinkled where the Ark would have been and the incense was left on the Foundation Stone ).