In Native American indian culture, why did the worshippers of the sun god...

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...practice ritual sacrifice? please share with me your perceptions on this issue, and tell me if you can see any similarities with any modern religions in this day and age i.e; judaism.
The mayans and aztecs are not considered native americans?
I fully realise that the ones you listed worshipped a shamanistic diety however.
So they believed in religious multidimensionalism...
 
The "Sun God" you are actually referring has been Jesus Christ for the past two thousand years, and Mary Magdelene has been the Buffalo Woman for the past two thousand years.

God the Powerful One has been Jesus Christ for the past two thousand years, and I WAS Mary Magdelene for the past two thousand years.

Akela is actually right. Native Americans did not sacrifice people like the aztecs and mayans did. That is what seperates us from those people to the south. But the reference I was referring to is the Creator Himself that Native Americans are famous for believing in. Basically.

Aztecs and mayans werent familiar with the Buffalo Woman back then before the spaniards came to their land. From what I understand they believed in the serpent of stone. Totally different than what Native Americans believe/d. We didn't carve anything in stone with what we believe/d in.
 
They thought religious rites and sacrifice could help control the gods and nature.
The Hebrews once had human sacrifice (of infants) but got rid of the practice very early on.
Christianity had only one sacrifice -- Jesus -- and doesn't require any more.
 
You mean SOUTH American native cultures. They believed life and death are the same but operate in different dimensions. The other dimension is the place where the different phenomena come from, such as bad storms and droughts etc. So a willing sacrifice was sent to act on their behalf in the other dimension.

It's obviously not a simple as that but that is it basically. The more things that went wrong the more go between's they sent. It was also a way of reducing the population to sustainable levels with that of their food growing abilities. Cull or suffer mass starvation, which of course works all be it barbaric.

There is the link with sacrificing and yes it is similar but with judaism it was to a single god, where as the Mayans had many gods.

Practicing Shaman... quantum physics rocks.
 
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