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Human sacrifice
This page from the Codex Tovar depicts a scene of gladiatorial sacrificial rite, celebrated on the festival of Tlacaxipehualiztli. Part of a series on Homicide Murder Note: Varies by jurisdiction Assassination Child murder Consensual homicide Contract killing Crime of passion Depraved-heart murder Double murder Execution-style killing Felony murder rule Feticide Honor killing Human sacrifice Child Lust murder Lynching Mass murder Misdemeanor murder Murder–suicide Proxy murder Pseudocommando Lonely hearts killer Serial killer Spree killer Internet homicide Manslaughter In English law Negligent homicide Vehicular homicide Non-criminal homicide Note: Varies by jurisdiction Euthanasia Assisted suicide Capital punishment Feticide Human sacrifice Justifiable homicide War By victim or victims Suicide Family Familicide Avunculicide Prolicide Filicide Infanticide Neonaticide Fratricide Mariticide Sororicide Uxoricide Parricide Matricide Patricide Other Capital punishment Democide Friendly fire Genocide Gendercide Omnicide Regicide Tyrannicide v t e Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more human beings, usually as an offering to a deity, as part of a religious ritual. Its typology closely parallels the various practices of ritual slaughter of animals and of religious sacrifice in general. Human sacrifice has been practiced in various cultures throughout history. Victims were typically ritually killed in a manner that was supposed to please or appease gods, spirits or the deceased, for example as a propitiatory offering, or as a retainer sacrifice when the King's servants are killed in order for them to continue to serve their master in the next life. Closely related practices found in some tribal societies are cannibalism and headhunting. By the Iron Age, with the associated developments in religion (the Axial Age), human sacrifice was becoming less common throughout the Old World, and came to be looked down upon as barbaric in pre-modern times (Classical Antiquity). Blood libel is a false charge of ritual killing.In modern times, even the practice of animal sacrifice has virtually disappeared from all major religions (or has been re-cast in terms of ritual slaughter), and human sacrifice has become extremely rare. Most religions condemn the practice, and present-day secular laws treat it as murder. In a society which condemns human sacrifice, the term ritual murder is used. Cite error: There are tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist}} template (see the help page).
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