Editor: Chiara Petrolini

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This mandala is devoted to the solar deity Surya. In the lower register a Vajracharya priest at left performs a fire sacrifice and the repentant donor at center undergoing some form of exorcism accompanied by musicians while his family observes. [1379]

from: Nepal, Kathmandu Valley (Kitaharasa Period: Early Malla period Date)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: BuddhismFire

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Tite page from: Willem Surenhuys (ed), Mischna sive totius hebraeorum juris, rituum, antiquitatum, ac legum oralium sytema, cum clarissimorum rabbinorum Maimonidis & Bartenorae commentariis integris, Amsterdam, 1698-1703, vol. 1

Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice AntiquarianismFireJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesMaimonidesMishnah

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Title page of Mizbeah olah, seu de ara exteriore templi secundi exercitationes philologicae (1697)

from: Cramer, Johannes-Jacobus,

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1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century) 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: FireJewish SacrificeJewish Studies

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Tripod vessel with baby jaguar sacrifice scene (650–750)

Princeton University Art Museum

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice CeramicMayaNorth America

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Tumi (cerimonial copper knife) (15th)

from: Peru

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Inca EmpireKnifePeru

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Tumi (knife) with a talon (1400-1530)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Inca EmpireKnife

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Two boys preparing to sacrifice a young buffalo, Vārānasi , India (1920)

Yale University Library

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice IndiaKnifePhotograph

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Valmiki instructs Kusha and Lava in the recitation of the "Ramayana" before the occasion of a sacrifice in Rama's palace (1597-1605)

from: The Ramayana (Tales of Rama; The Freer Ramayana), Volume 2

National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: HinduIndiaMughalRamayana

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Yamata no Orochi venant réclamer son sacrifice (17th)

from: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Smith-Lesouëf Japonais 177 (1)

Paris, BnF

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: FireJapan

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(1627)

from: Matthäus Rader, Bavaria Sancta, vol. III, 1627, p. 173

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Blood LibelJewish Studies

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from: An illustration from a manuscript of Persian poetry, possibly Divan of Zahir al-Din Faryabi

Sothebys

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1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century) 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacIsaacIslamTurkey

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(1651)

from: Samuel Clarke, A Generall Martyrologie (London, 1651)

Topics:
6. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology after Reformation (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomMartyrologyProtestantism

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The Sacrifice of Isaac (Armenian Gospel Book) (1386)

from: Lake Van, Turkey

Getty Museum, Armenian Ms. Ludwig II 6 (83.MB.70), fol. 5v

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1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century) 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacAnimal Sacrifice ArmeniaBibleHuman SacrificeIsaacTurkey

Unknown (from Urach)

Sacrifice of Cain and Abel (1463-1463)

Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

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1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AbelAbel and CainAnimal Sacrifice CainFireManuscript

Unknown Edo Artists

Sacrifice of leopards was the prerogative of the king. Captured leopards were sacrified at the annual Igue ceremony. (16th-17th)

from: Benin City, Nigeria [Benin Brass Plaques]

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AfricaAnimal Sacrifice BrassKingshipKnifeSub-Saharan Africa

Unknown Indian Artist

A goat about to be beheaded as a Hindu ritual in honour of the goddess Kālī (1800-1899)

Wellcome Collection, London

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice GoatHinduIndia

Unknown Indian Artist

Four priests perform a yagna, a fire sacrifice to Agni [1800-1900]

London, Wellcome Collection

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: FireHinduIndiaVedic

Unknown Indian Artist

Lord Ganesh and Skanda (?) sit across a sacrificial fire, with a long flame coming out of a pink pot watched by seventeen other deities. [1800-1899]

London, Wellcome Collection

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: FireHinduIndiaVedic

Unknown Indian Artist

Nine female deities (?) performing a yagna, a fire sacrifice (1800-1900)

London, Wellcome Collection

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: FireHinduIndiaVedicWomen

Unknown Indian Artist

Thirteen different gods perform a yagna, a fire sacrifice, an old vedic ritual where offerings are made to the god of fire, Agni (1800-1899)

London, Wellcome Collection

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: FireHinduIndiaVedic