>No, but with full knowledge and understanding they themselves offered up their own children, and those who had no children would buy little ones from poor people and cut their throats as if they were so many lambs or young birds; meanwhile the mother stood by without a tear or moan; but should she utter a single moan or let fall a single tear, she had to forfeit the money, and her child was sacrificed nevertheless; and the whole area before the statue was filled with a loud noise of flutes and drums took the cries of wailing should not reach the ears of the people.>Among the Carthaginians there was in former times a bronze image of Cronus, extending its hands, palms uppermost and sloping toward the ground, so that each child placed thereon rolled down and fell into a sort of gaping pit filled with fire.”
>>18121533So they paid the parents of the child to be sacrificed?
>>18121536It's a symbolic sacrifice duh.Theres lots of symbology. So so much symbology.
