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The major ritual action of Kurban-Bairam is a bloody sacrifice of an animal (usually, a ram or camel); this rite takes its origin from a cult of the ancient nomads-cattlemen who sacrificed animals to spirits of desert in order "to cajole" them.
He shows Maia cut open, every bit of blood and flesh, the surgical instruments, the baby, like a little god born out of some hideous bloody sacrifice, raised aloft.
com Book One of The Sorcerer's Twilight series, Left Horse Black is an exciting novel about a long-running war between the ruthless Kersian sorcerers, known for their bloody sacrifices of women and children to their "no name" god, and Danaria's sorcerers.
 
 
 
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