What is "sacrifices"

Usage examples of "sacrifices".

And on this account it is that Etesian winds from Zeus cool the land for forty days, and in Ceos even now the priests offer sacrifices before the rising of the Dog-star.

All this presupposes temples, priests, sacrifices, and an orderly state of society.

Hengorot, to view the skins and remember, too, the sacrifices these people had made.

Artemis by wearing the moon face when she goes to the altar, that is a white paste we make from gypsum and use at home when we offer sacrifices at the time of full moon.

He testified that sacrifices are often done near water for a baptism-type rite or just to wash the blood away.

He stated Wicca does not practice animal sacrifices or blood rituals in any way.

His vows were crumbling, his every prayer to Fener meeting with naught but silence, as if his god was indifferent to the sacrifices Itkovian had made in his name.

It threatens what they have been taught, makes their sacrifices and their suffering useless, an act of folly.

March-it was customary, as at Bambyce, to pour water into the fissure, together with flour mixed with honey, poured also into the trench dug to the west of the tomb, in the funeral sacrifices of the Athenians.

Druids of Gaul and Britain offered human sacrifices, while it is claimed that the Irish Druids did not.

A Royal Funeral--Order of Procession--Pomp and Ceremony--A Striking Contrast--A Sick Monarch--Human Sacrifices at His Death--Burial Orgies CHAPTER LXIX.

But the offended idol remained an idol, and my expiatory sacrifices began.

Phthia and made his home in Ceos, and gathered together the Parrhasian people who are of the lineage of Lycaon, and he built a great altar to Zeus Icmaeus, and duly offered sacrifices upon the mountains to that star Sirius, and to Zeus son of Cronos himself.

And still the altars which Medea built on the spot sacred to Apollo, god of shepherds, receive yearly sacrifices in honour of the Fates and the Nymphs.

And from that sport of the heroes such scoffs do the women fling at the men in that island whenever they propitiate with sacrifices Apollo the gleaming god, the warder of Anaphe.