![]() ![]() What is it about animal sacrifice that makes otherwise staid European scholars and experts on go ape-shit crazy nwcans start fantasizing about primal violence and making up strange myths of their own? Homo Necans To ask other readers questions about Homo Necansplease sign up. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Published by University of California Press first published Weaver Award for Scholarly Letters. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Homp famous study. ![]() ![]() Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Burkert, Walter: Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth. David said: What is it about animal sacrifice that makes otherwise staid European scholars and experts on go ap. Homo Necans has 99 ratings and 5 reviews. “A milestone, not only in the field of classics but in the wider field of the history of religion It will find a place alongside the works of Jane Ellen Harrison. ![]()
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