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From: IN%"dougf@dgr.jpl.nasa.gov" 30-NOV-1993 15:55:03.54
Subj: RE: Animal Sacrifice
Hailsa Darius!
There is currently a discussion of animal sacrafice
as part of Asatru going on on the Asatru mailing
list. Asatru sacrifice in modern form is a "sacred
barbeque". (Ancient form was usually stewing not
roasting, for those who are heavy-duty about
historical accuracy.)
Issues:
Spiritually linking people with their food vs the
current commercial system that strips out all
spiritual linkage in food.
Humanely raising and/or killing the animal vs
cruel factory-like raising and killing for
sanatized plastic wrap at the grocery store.
Doing your own raising or hunting for the
chance to thank the animal in person, at least
in some spiritual way.
All three above are personal involvement issues.
Wasting animal food that is sacraficed is a piece
of misinformation spread by religions that are
hostile to Pagan religions. Maybe some ancient
religions in the middle east failed to eat the
animals that they sacraficed and pissed off the
ancient Hebrews about it, but all moderns eat
the food.
Praying just before eating, Christian style, is
not really any different from praying just
before cooking, Asatru style, or praying just
before killing, Jewish Kosher style. _Any_
prayer associated with eating animal product
food can properly be called "sacrafice".
Some of it is about sacrafices being done to
appease angry gods, which totally wrong for any
Pagan sacrafice practice I'd ever heard about in
the modern world: Asatruar share the food with
the gods, Santeros use sacrafices as a form of
purchase price for a request, etc.
Doug Freyburger Senior Unix SysAdmin and itinerate mystic
May Gungnir, Odin's Spear of Knowledge, point
you down a path of long and healthy life.
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