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This doesn’t pass the smell test. Many ancient cultures also ritually sacrificed warriors and nobility.

• strogonoff 3y ago
  Any references, or we are supposed to go off your word? René Girard gives plenty in the book. He also notes that sacrifice of an outcast is a thing, I think I mentioned it already: once a person is stripped of his or her membership in society, that person becomes a perfectly valid sacrificial scapegoat—no matter whether that person used to be a warrior or a noble. Note also that, while we are talking about ritual sacrifice here, plain simple murder was as much of a thing back then. The two are very different things.
  • Amezarak 3y ago
    Most classical histories include some ethnographic descriptions of foreign rituals. Check out Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy, etc. For a modern and extensive compilation, Frazer famously wrote a huge multi-volume work that documents sacrificial myths from all over the world in The Golden Bough. He selects and uses them to make his own argument, but you’re not likely to find a more comprehensive compilation.