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I got the impression from the Old Testament that it was how they got food for the priests to eat. "God likes the smell of burnt flesh... okay, he's smelled it. Time to chow down."
they burned a lot of it but the kohanim got the good cuts yeah
I always figured it was more "look at us, we're so successful we can afford to waste this much," the egregore version of a peacock's giant plumage that shows to mates how many calories it can afford to waste lugging it around
That's maybe a consideration, but there also seems a strong element of the sunk cost fallacy. If you've given something up for something else, doesn't really matter what, you're naturally more invested in that thing. They like anything that increases your emotional investment.
My pet theory is that old school sacrifice was all about regulating the price of crops and livestock, especially in societies where large landowners were also senior religious officials. It worked for FDR, why not the pagans?
Of course that is a constant into a matter-energy scale. Voracity Vortex.
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