In South America, this practice involved pirac, in which blood was used to anoint the ears and face of a figure in the Haucaypata.
Pietzschmann argued that this religious practice stopped in the region between the Tigris and the Euphrates when barren women started to make vows to their gods. In South America, this practice involved pirac, in which blood was used to anoint the ears and face of a figure in the Haucaypata. That kind of practice usually occurred during the capacoha, an initiation rite. Psalms 106:34-39 describes this practice in detail as practiced by a foreign country. The discovery of twenty thousand urns in the sacred area of Tophet gave evidence for one type of this practice, which Philo of Alexandria claimed the Phoenicians engaged in to appease their god Ba'al Hammon. More likely, though, Tertullian and other church fathers accused Carthaginians of engaging in it for propagandistic reasons. For 10 points, what type of religious offering was almost performed by Abraham, who used his son Isaac?
Pietzschmann argued that this religious practice stopped in the region between the Tigris and the Euphrates when barren women started to make vows to their gods.
child sacrifice (prompt on human sacrifice)