Why did human sacrifice go out?

Tlalhuicole. He was sacrificed eventually, on his own request.

Thanks, I knew you would know his identity 9 Fang. I could only recall the events.

But overall human sacrifice came in a myriad of forms in the ancient world. Some forms are less obvious than others due to them becoming disassociated with their original meaning. So gladiatorial combat became less about offering the defeated to the deceased and more an entertainment for the masses.
 
Gordius said:
But overall human sacrifice came in a myriad of forms in the ancient world. Some forms are less obvious than others due to them becoming disassociated with their original meaning. So gladiatorial combat became less about offering the defeated to the deceased and more an entertainment for the masses.
It also probably doesn't help that a lot of antique religions were also civic religions, which means a lot of what we now see as secular rituals weren't necessarilly so back in Antiquity.
 
There is an author, whose name I can't recall, who claimed Augustus sacrificed a virgin at the founding of every city he founded. M-something.
 
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