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After leading the marked beast to the altar where they will sacrifice it, they kindle a fire; then they pour wine on the altar over the victim and call upon the god; then they cut its throat, and having done so sever the head from the body.
After leading the marked beast to the altar where they will sacrifice it, they kindle a fire; then they pour wine on the altar over the victim and call upon the god; then they cut its throat, and having done so sever the head from the body.
[2] They flay the carcass of the victim, then invoke many curses on its head, which they carry away. Where there is a market, and
Greek traders in it, the head is taken to the market and sold; where there are no
Greeks, it is thrown into the river.
[3] The imprecation which they utter over the heads is that whatever ill threatens those who sacrifice, or the whole of
Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa
Egypt
, fall upon that head.
[4] In respect of the heads of sacrificed beasts and the libation of wine, the practice of all
Egyptians is the same in all sacrifices; and from this ordinance no
Egyptian will taste of the head of anything that had life.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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