Why did some Pagan civilisations adopt human sacrifice?

[Seeker in the Dark]

Obviously they got corrupt and degenerate at some point, but I’m wondering how the priestly class of these places ended up practicing human sacrifice despite having contact with the Gods who abhor the practice.

There are likely others but the main 3 are:

Canaan and Carthage( as recorded by several Pagan Greek and Roman historians outside the bible)
The Aztecs
Parts of Africa, which is still going on to this day

Were the priests of these areas cut off from communion with the Gods and then they began practicing human sacrifice? If they indeed had direct contact with the Gods as I’m sure they had/have their own divination practices, why did they end up adopting these abhorrent practices?

 

[Karnonnos [TG]]

There are assumptions here by you, like that their priestly class had communications with the Gods and listened to them. Did they? How do you know that?

There has never been any real physical proof of human sacrifice in Phoenicia/'Canaan'. Even the Greek accounts claimed that if this did exist it was a very ancient practice (like Bronze Age retardation) the inhabitants of Tyre had long abandoned by Alexander's time. There is in fact far more evidence of it in very limited amounts among the Celts, Slavs and Vikings (due to general stupidity) than anywhere in the Levant. Much like in Europe, African human sacrifice is generally pretty limited.

The evidence in Carthage is more convincing because urns of mostly infants were found, yet bone analysis of the bones does not support the ancient accounts nor is it possible to date the bones themselves. Even the pro-sacrifice group admit the bones are all characteristic of an open funeral pyre, not a pizza furnace inside a statue. The story with some of those also goes that teenage boys offered themselves up to be killed, which has never been found.

The Aztec and Maya case is something completely different and borne out by hard evidence. Both of these civilizations were already violent, yet both were also pretty advanced on the material side (Tenochtitlan is an engineering marvel) and the distortion took it to another level. This was progressively a corruption of evil by the point that in 1500, every Aztec festival was characterized by it. The Gods have emphatically told me many times they ordered them to stop.

There were enemy interventions here. If you have abilities yet choose to tune into the enemy or some filthy astral spirit hostile to humanity and do what they say as a group, then you can end up vulnerable to everything. But to go that far shows longstanding corruption and extreme fear (hostility) towards the Gods in the first place.

In any case, people must get it out of their heads that every civilization's interpretation was 'equally valid'. Greece, Rome, Egypt (until the end) and India adhered to the Gods, others have often gone wildly off track. That includes milder cases like Persia where a lot of the distortion came from royal hubris.

You can also have cases like Porphyry where someone who is in an advanced civilization and so on can go crazy and be mentally unbalanced. One unbalanced person is one thing, a whole group is another.

 

[DarkAries]

The Aztec and Maya case is something completely different and borne out by hard evidence. Both of these civilizations were already violent, yet both were also pretty advanced on the material side (Tenochtitlan is an engineering marvel) and the distortion took it to another level. This was progressively a corruption of evil by the point that in 1500, every Aztec festival was characterized by it. The Gods have emphatically told me many times they ordered them to stop.

And Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent, their God of knowledge was the one who actively refused any kind of blood sacrifice. Just wondering, is that mean every other of their Gods have been corrupted into bloodthirsty dieties, or just replaced original Gods with false onesml.

Ancient greek was also pretty violent, now you definitly raised my curiosity

 

[Karnonnos [TG]]

Ancient greek was also pretty violent, now you definitly raised my curiosity

Greece had wars and everything but never practiced this. The myth of Tantalus sacrificing his son sent him straight to Tartarus. Another myth of King Lycaon murdering his people or child had Zeus incinerate him with a thunderbolt and condemned him to Tartarus. Satan also stops the sacrifice of Isaac in the Bible.

Dumb historians try to tie this to the Mycenaeans or ancient Crete but the evidence is very laughable.

People should try to think about how much the church (or Islam) operates a massive system of human sacrifice, even beyond the things they do to children and others in secret. People are brainwashed into thinking that burning, torturing and mutilating endless people out of 'holiness' is totally different, but when you understand what this is from a Zevist perspective, it is anything but that.

One pro-Catholic shill in history, Joseph de Maistre, admitted all the mass murder by the church was a neverending blood sacrifice to appease 'YHVH':

The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but a vast altar upon which all that is living must be sacrificed without end, without measure, without pause, until the consummation of things, until evil is extinct, until the death of death.​

And beyond that, as abhorrent was it was (and they paid for this), the Aztecs (stupidly) thought the sacrifice victims would become divine, the church condemned people to wander around in nothingness after death, made them fear hell their entire living lives and set them up them to obliterate their souls through each incarnation. Torture, torture, torture, final death, 'death of death'.

 

[Umun]

There is in fact far more evidence of it in very limited amounts among the Celts, Slavs and Vikings (due to general stupidity) than anywhere in the Levant.

I wonder if some of these accounts have been misinterpreted as human sacrifice while actually being ritualized punishment that had an important and obvious function. I'm sure that in earlier times human sacrifice had existed as well but it is hard to believe that as these peoples progressed they would be allowed to carry on with such practices. Slander by historians and circumstancial evidence perhaps?

They didn't reach levels of development as some others but in later stages before being infected with xtianity they had a rather well developed culture in sync with the Gods. Too bad much of it was erased only to be found in akashic records now.