Know that there were several types
of sacrifice (thusia)
practiced by the Greeks
facts concerning which, who knows,
may pertain to you.
Very many are the permutations
so I shall mention only a few
2. thusia with trapeza—everything eaten: meat, blood, vegetable offerings
3. thusia with trapezomata—deposition of raw meat for divinity: everything eaten
4. haimakourai—offerings of blood made to the dead
5. sphagai—the victim’s throat is cut, blood drained into sphageion; alternately blood is poured onto altar, or, if the rite is piacular, over the worshippers; nothing is eaten
6. protoma, i.e.,‘front part cut off’—leaving you with the head and face of a decapitated animal, or, Ps. Plu. Fluv. 21.4, of a boar with human head
7. enateuein—to have the ninth part removed for a sacrifice
8. holocaust—blood and meat destroyed, nothing is eaten
9. leukopareïdodiamésis—cutting the white throat of your daughter over a fire at Aulis; nothing is eaten, everybody dies
with apologies to Gunnel Ekroth
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