Forgotten Beliefs and Sacrifices - Documentary Films Channel

Sacrifice is the offering of meals, things or the lives of animals to a greater objective, in certain divine beings, as an act of propitiation or praise. While sacrifice often suggests routine killing, the term offering (Latin oblatio) can be utilized for bloodless sacrifices of cereal food or artifacts. For providings of liquids (refreshments) by pouring, the term drink is used.
The Latin term came to be utilized of the Christian eucharist in specific, sometimes named a "bloodless sacrifice" to distinguish it from blood sacrifices. In specific pre-Christian ethnic religious beliefs, terms translated as "sacrifice" include the Indic yajna, the Greek thusia, the Germanic blotan, the Semitic qorban/qurban, and so on
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Animal sacrifice is the ritual killing of an animal as component of a religion. It likewise offered a financial or social function in those societies where the edible parts of the animal were dispersed amongst those attending the sacrifice for usage.
Animal sacrifice is still engaged in today by the followers of Santeria and various other lineages of Orisa as a means of curing the sick and giving thanks to the Orisa (gods). Christians from some villages in Greece also sacrifice animals to Orthodox saints in a business known as kourbania.