Animal sacrifice

An animal sacrifice is the killing of an animal, such as a goat or pig, to a deity.^[1]

Animal Sacrifice Media

Sacrifice of a pig in ancient Greece (tondo from an Attic red-figure cup, BC/BCE, by the Epidromos Painter, collections of the Louvre)
One of the altars at the Monte d'Accoddi in Sardinia, where animal sacrifice may have occurred.
A bull is led to the altar of Athena, whose image is at right. Vase, c. 545 BCE.
Preparation of an animal sacrifice; marble, fragment of an architectural relief, first quarter of the 2nd century AD; from Rome, Italy
Taurobolium ex voto altar dedicated to the Mother of the Gods on behalf of the emperor's wellbeing, set up by a priest in Roman Gaul (CIL 12.1569
Matagh of a rooster at the entrance of a monastery church (Alaverdi, Armenia, 2009), with inset of bloody steps.
Christmas goat sacrifice in Isla de Margarita, Venezuela

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