About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 125. Chapters: Graphemes, Mythemes, Narrative forms, Units of linguistic morphology, Arabic numerals, Numeral system, Morpheme, Eschatology, Meme, Clitic, Monster, Resurrection, Allomorph, Glyph, Logogram, Tree of life, Trilogy, Crossroads, Pastiche, Human sacrifice, Debate on traditional and simplified Chinese characters, Gene, Monomyth, Sequel, Miraculous births, Axis mundi, Eternal return, Gamebook, Subtle body, Tree worship, Weaving, Narrative art, King in the mountain, Spiritual successor, Word, Quest, Myth of origins, Lemma, Principal parts, Heptalogy, Hypertext fiction, Hieros gamos, Tetralogy, Al-Qurnah, Word stem, Interactive novel, Pentalogy, Continuator, Narrative structure, Cumulative tale, Katabasis, Zhuang logogram, Narrative logic, Nif gene, Null morpheme, Musica universalis, Cranberry morpheme, Homage, Hexalogy, Bound morpheme, List of narrative forms, Letterform, Null allomorph, Infant exposure, Phraseme, Autofiction, Visual narrative, Arborglyph, Flash prose, Dolorous Stroke, Mean length of utterance, Morphogram, Johann Friedrich Unger, Phonogram, Mongolian numerals, Functional morpheme, Ba ye. Excerpt: Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more human beings as part of a religious ritual (ritual killing). Its typology closely parallels the various practices of ritual slaughter of animals (animal sacrifice) and of religious sacrifice in general. Human sacrifice has been practised in various cultures throughout history. Victims were typically ritually killed in a manner that was supposed to please or appease gods, spirits or the deceased, for example as a propitiatory offering, or as a retainer sacrifice when the King's servants are killed in order for them to continue to serve their master in the next life. Closely related practices found in some tribal societies are cannibalism and headhunting. By the I...
