Sacrificial ritual

Japanese: 犠牲祭祀 - ぎせいさいし
Sacrificial ritual

...In the jar burial grounds of northern Kyushu, the pottery used in the tomb-front rites is buried in a hole, which is called the "ritual pit." Sacrificial rites began in the Paleolithic period (for example, the deer sacrifices of the Ahrensburg culture in Germany). However, they only became widespread after the beginning of agriculture. In Northern Europe, human sacrifices (Denmark's Bronze Age to Iron Age) and the whole body of a horse's skin placed on a pole at an angle (Denmark's Migration Period) are known. In Japan, there have been an increasing number of discoveries of what appear to be parts of the remains of sacrificial horses in holes, wells, and ditches from the Kofun period to the Heian period, and it is thought that this may be related to the rain-making rituals for Chinese gods that appear in the literature.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "sacrificial rituals" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…なお北部九州の甕棺墓地では,墓前祭に用いた祭祀用土器を穴に埋めており,この穴は〈祭祀土坑〉と呼ばれている。 犠牲祭祀は旧石器時代に始まっている(たとえばドイツのアーレンスブルク文化のシカの犠牲)。しかし本格化するのは農耕が始まってからであって,北ヨーロッパでは人身犠牲(デンマークの青銅器~鉄器時代),ウマの全身の皮を斜めに寝かせた棒にかぶせる例(デンマーク民族移動時代)などが知られ,日本では古墳時代から平安時代にかけての穴,井戸,溝で,犠牲ウマの遺体の一部とみられるものの発見例が増しており,文献にみる漢神をまつる雨乞いとの関係が考えられている。…

※「犠牲祭祀」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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