@AdmiralHip animal sacrifices tended to be animals past their use, or just one joint. But big bodies are often young, strong people.
@civilwarbore the Romans were big on the boundary between life and death. No dead within the city limits. One exception was an emperor.
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@civilwarbore BUT. richer families had tombs built like homes, and they would eat outside tombs during the Parentalia in February. -
@AdmiralHip all this reminds me, I need to build a wee henge, out of wood. I don't have room for a barrow, sadly. - Show replies
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@AdmiralHip right, I was more wondering about pre-Roman Rome, as it were. Everybody starts somewhere. -
@civilwarbore very true indeed. When I did my Greek and Roman religion courses, my instructor said this great thing
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