(***This
post deals with the highly controversial subject of the ancient Blood Rite
(consumption of blood) and its connection to the practice of human sacrifice.
Due to the fact that the vast majority of people are very skeptical of not only
the practice, but also the effects, it is strongly recommended that you do your
own research into the subject and draw your own conclusions based on all
available evidence.)
Just about
everybody has some idea of what a Blood Rite or Blood Ritual is, the most
common version that is familiar to most in the Western world is the Eucharist
and the doctrine of Transubstantiation, whereby the sacrament of the Mass, the
bread and wine, not only symbolically represent the body and blood of Jesus
Christ, but in reality, become the body and blood of Jesus Christ to the
faithful.
Its other
more sinister form, when it is related to animal and human sacrifice, is also
rather familiar, primarily due to Hollywood and its never-ending stream of bad
horror movies. Although, Hollywood tends to misinterpret the reasons for it and
how it was done, it does get the fact right that in the ancient world, animal
and human sacrifice was usually done as an offering to a deity, as part of
ritual. The victims were normally ritually killed in a manner that was suppose
to please and/or appease the gods, spirits, or even the deceased, as a form of
ancestor worship. It was also done as a propitiatory offering, where a king’s
servants, wives, or even animals, were killed and buried with the king, in
order for them to continue to serve their master in the next life. Surprisingly
enough, this form of human sacrifice is also closely related to and may have
its origin in the practices found in some tribal societies that practiced
cannibalism and headhunting, which again, have been misinterpreted by Hollywood
as a barbaric custom, that is only practiced by primitive cultures.