Currently reading Homer's Odyssey.
The sacrifice of bulls is mentioned and described there quite often.
I read on ToZ that sacrifices are not acceptable to our gods.
Was this just the “ignorance” of the time?
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These are allegories, references to something else. Mythologies should not be taken literally.
Active TranslatorLike Sonne said, Myths should not be taken literally. Most of the times these stories go much deeper than an actual historical description of an event.
Ancient Pagan peoples actually had strict laws preventing harming or sacrificing animals.
Here’s an explanation from High Priest Zevios Metathronos from one of his posts:
What happened in Ancient Paganism was basically what is called the Pompais, which was essentially the consecration of meat. This goes in reverse, it's not a sacrifice, it's a blessing of the meat, where the God gives the energy, not the other way around. Because the meat is living, they brought it in front of the God (this is why they used the holy animals of the Gods with high reverence). The God would bless their food, and they would eat it as a sign of respect and nutrition. The Demons in this case came to give blessings, not to eat the diseased dead corpse.
Read this thread for more information.
Thread 'Blood Sacrifices Explained: Our Gods And "Their Gods" '
https://ancient-forums.com/threads/blood-sacrifices-explained-our-gods-and-their-gods-updated.75413/
AskSatanOperator wrote:View source Currently reading Homer's Odyssey.
Some things are not literal or historical, but tales with deep spiritual morals. No God would ever order massacres of entire peoples. But an idea about a massacre of a people is an excellent pretext on which to create an Epic Poem in which a legendary story is told where spiritual knowledge is illustrated. Now perhaps this is not so easy to understand with a Western text so akin to our culture. But take the Epic Poem of Rāmāyaṇa as an example. Does it make sense to you to take it literally?
Sonne wrote:View source These are allegories, references to something else. Mythologies should not be taken literally.
Mythology aside, there is evidence that the Greeks offered animal sacrifices because animal bones have been found at certain sites.
Also, historians like Herodotus and Plutarch have mentioned animal sacrifices many times. So this couldn't be just mythology.
Plutarch mentioned that Themistocles offered some Persian captives as a human sacrifice too.
People in those ancient times did things like that, it doesn't mean that the Gods wanted or approved of them.
Homer wrote:View source Mythology aside, there is evidence that the Greeks offered animal sacrifices because animal bones have been found at certain sites.
Yes. The bone part, it's explained here:
https://ancient-forums.com/threads/blood-sacrifices-explained-our-gods-and-their-gods-updated.75413/
And I'm not quoting the sermon to you because "ToZ said so." I have done personal studies that what Hp. Zevios Metathronos writes is absolutely true so I find it absurd that people accuse their ancestors so superficially without even trying to understand what was going on.
Homer wrote:View source Also, historians like Herodotus and Plutarch have mentioned animal sacrifices many times. So this couldn't be just mythology.
The mythology part lies in some immediate attitudes of how Homeric characters behaved. Of course, if you summon Apollo/Azazel, he will never tell you that he wants a WW2 of random animals. In fact, if you actually try to make blood sacrifices of innocents and put Azazel's Name in the middle of it in a special summoning, it is more than likely that Azazel will punish you. But that is a legendary epic tale that is supposed to teach things other than how a sacrifice is handled to bless the souls of animals that are killed to eat the meat and avoid vegan famines.
Homer wrote:View source People in those ancient times did things like that, it doesn't mean that the Gods wanted or approved of them.
Generally, things about sacrifices stand in the way that has already been said. But the fact that a specific ancient pagan was a pagan does not imply that he was always divinely perfect because humans make mistakes and even here on the forum we do not have perfect SSs. People make mistakes. Even if things are generally in a valid and recognized way, some individuals may do things like an extra war that was not necessary, etc.