I always wonder about that. To modern sensibilities ritual sacrifice doesn’t immediately sound like a great way to go out, but you’d usually get a fancy outfit, some really good food, and probably some hallucinogens.
As an option that wasn’t disease, starvation, or festering spear wounds it probably wasn’t the worst that could happen.
I always wonder about that. To modern sensibilities ritual sacrifice doesn’t immediately sound like a great way to go out, but you’d usually get a fancy outfit, some really good food, and probably some hallucinogens.
As an option that wasn’t disease, starvation, or festering spear wounds it probably wasn’t the worst that could happen.
Also you get to lie in a museum for a long time so nobody forgets who you are?
Interesting point though my guess is human nature hasn’t changed since those days and we, for the most part, really don’t want to die.