>>19442808"The Sacrifice" and its different types is only understandable for those who really study ancient culture and history.
The modern idea of christ sacrificing himself to the world in order to sponge up all sin is ludicrous, of course.
The power of sacrifice hinges of a couple of fundamental ideas
>there are multiple worlds or layers of reality>these can be made to interact>these worlds have different denizens, ie spirits, Gods>but there is a universal balance between those worlds, "as above, so below", with numerous implications>the type of input and the context is important>sacrifice is ritualistic, but it can be wholly symbolic (the majority of sacrifices, especially today)Sin was a relatively new concept which developed from uncleanness. Jews, being neurotic freaks, developed a religious system of self segregation and control. While it was primarily done by their elite to keep their own underlings in line, the thing mutated into judaism after axial revolutions.
Sin turned out to be an over night revolution for human resource control, because largely useless people could be made to community assets.
Originally almost everything required some kind of (symbolic) sacrifice, just like pretty mich everything has to be achieved through some measure of energy consumption or effort. Fertility, war, peace, merriment, nourishment, oaths, wishes.
