That wouldn't translate much to where the jews took it. You couldn't sacrifice a murderer on the alter to atone for your sins.
It seems quite clear anthropologically that pretty much all cultures in the primitive times that started religious like behavior, adopted early the notion of "pleasing" their god/gods with a blood sacrifice or offering.
Since human intellectual capacity was pretty much the same then as it is now, it makes sense that the practice of sacrificing weaker members or animals to predators for thousands of years could translate into a cultural belief that sacrifice is how you help your community stay safe from threat, and even can lead to "blessings" that come from some higher power.
Humans are very repetitive animals when it comes to tradition. To the point where we will repeat exact rituals for generations and generations and the original meaning of the ritual itself becomes forgotten, but we still do it because it is ingrained in us.
This is an easy explanation for the sacrificial nature that is common among most all early religions.
Jordan Peterson even takes it further in his amazing courses on the Bible where he attributes the human discovery of the concept of the "future" as encoded in the early books of the bible through the language of sacrifice. Where the notion of sacrificing now for a better future teaches humans to do the same within their own lives.
It seems quite clear anthropologically that pretty much all cultures in the primitive times that started religious like behavior, adopted early the notion of "pleasing" their god/gods with a blood sacrifice or offering.
Since human intellectual capacity was pretty much the same then as it is now, it makes sense that the practice of sacrificing weaker members or animals to predators for thousands of years could translate into a cultural belief that sacrifice is how you help your community stay safe from threat, and even can lead to "blessings" that come from some higher power.
Humans are very repetitive animals when it comes to tradition. To the point where we will repeat exact rituals for generations and generations and the original meaning of the ritual itself becomes forgotten, but we still do it because it is ingrained in us.
This is an easy explanation for the sacrificial nature that is common among most all early religions.
Jordan Peterson even takes it further in his amazing courses on the Bible where he attributes the human discovery of the concept of the "future" as encoded in the early books of the bible through the language of sacrifice. Where the notion of sacrificing now for a better future teaches humans to do the same within their own lives.
7nine
