Translation for 'human sacrifice' from English to Spanish

human sacrifice [killing sb. for a god]

sacrificio {m} humanorelig.

human sacrifice [sb. killed for a god]

ofrenda {f} humanarelig.

víctima {f} humanarelig.

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sacrifice

sacrificio {m}

animal sacrifice

chivo {m} expiatorio [animal: sacrificio, ofrenda]relig.

Passover sacrifice

cordero {m} pascualrelig.

cordero {m} de Pascuarelig.

self-sacrifice

sacrificio {m}

supreme sacrifice

supremo sacrificio {m}

to sacrifice sb./sth.

sacrificar a-algn/algo

human

humano {m}

humano {adj}

human capital

capital {m} humano

human life

vida {f} humana

human race

raza {f} humana

human right

derecho {m} humano

human biology

biología {f} humanabiol.ciencia

human rights {pl}

derechos {m.pl} humanosjur.

human chain

cadena {f} humana

human being

ser {m} humano

human rights

derechos {m.pl} humanos

human immunodeficiency virus <HIV>

virus {m} de la inmunodeficiencia humana <VIH>med.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights <UDHR>

Declaración {f} Universal de Derechos del Hombre <DUDH>

• The Moabites were subdued, but seeing Mesha's act of offering his own son (and singular heir) as a propitiatory human sacrifice on the walls of Kir of Moab filled Israel with horror, and they withdrew and returned to their own land.
• The later belief that ancient Spartans had offered human sacrifice to Ares may owe more to mythical prehistory, misunderstandings, and reputation than to reality.
• Some archaeologists and historians think it was a later wave of immigrants from Tahiti around 1000 CE who introduced a new line of high chiefs, the kapu system, the practice of human sacrifice, and the building of "heiau".
• There is archaeological evidence for an increase in human sacrifices in the late Viking Age though among the Norse gods human sacrifice is most often linked to Odin.
• There was a history of human sacrifice using slaves.

• In Greek Mythology, Actaeon is widely thought to symbolize ritual human sacrifice in attempt to please a God or Goddess: the dogs symbolize the sacrificers and Actaeon symbolizes the sacrifice.
• The French further justified the annexation of Dahomey by characterizing the Dahomeans as savages in need of civilizing, and pointing to the human sacrifice of slaves made to the royal ancestors at the annual ceremonies known as annual customs and at a king's death, as evidence of this savagery.
• The Moabites were subdued, but seeing Mesha's act of offering his own son (and singular heir) as a propitiatory human sacrifice on the walls of Kir of Moab filled Israel with horror, and they withdrew and returned to their own land.
• Omadios ("flesh-eater"), Eusebius writes in Preparation for the Gospel that, Euelpis of Carystus states that, in Chios and Tenedos they did human sacrifice to Dionysus Omadios.
• As such, it is a form of human sacrifice.

• They practiced human sacrifice, had blood-drinking rituals, and their religion incorporated non-procreative sexual practices (such as fellatio).
• Pasqualini has argued that Saturn was related to "Iuppiter Latiaris", the old Jupiter of the Latins, as the original figure of this Jupiter was superseded on the Alban Mount, whereas it preserved its gruesome character in the ceremony held at the sanctuary of the Latiar Hill in Rome which involved a human sacrifice and the aspersion of the statue of the god with the blood of the victim.
• The most common form of human sacrifice practiced by the Aztecs was heart-extraction.
• In the History Channel's Canadian-Irish TV series "Vikings", Uppsala is visited by Ragnar Lothbrok and his entourage to worship the Aesir gods and offer a human sacrifice to appease them.
• He significantly reduced the wars and slave raids by the kingdom and in 1853 told the British that he reduced the practice of human sacrifice at the Annual Customs (possibly ending sacrifice of war captives completely and only sacrificing convicted criminals) However, these positions were reversed dramatically in 1857 and 1858 as Ghezo became hostile to the British; he revived slave trade through the port of Whydah, and in 1858, Dahomey attacked Abeokuta.

• Livy describes this "bloodless" human sacrifice as an abhorrent but pious necessity; Rome's eventual victory confirmed the gods' approval.