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>>18769795
Hanging a victim to Odin is described in 'Gautreks saga' as a means of satisfying Odin and getting his aid. With Odin even providing advice as to how to trick the victim into not resisting.
This saga was written down at a later date, but the language in it is ancient and we have verifiably older works that reference its contents.

Ibn Fadlan describes human sacrifice among the Rus during funerals for wealthy aristocrats.
We don't really have much of a reason to think that he was lying here. It isn't like he was trying to justify a conquest of the area, he was thousands of miles away from home writing a travelogue.

It is not a shock to think that humans were killed some of the time as part of general Northern European sacrifice rituals.

>>18770885
>We don't really have much of a reason to think that he was lying here. It isn't like he was trying to justify a conquest of the area, he was thousands of miles away from home writing a travelogue.
He was a Muslim who had an incentive to portray polytheists as backwards, he is not credible in regards to religion

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>>18770945
Fadlan did not like the Rus, more for their hygiene than anything else, but his description of a nobleman's funeral is substantial.

>>18769795
>who started as a Canaanite war and storm god btw
what

>>18771010
the monotheistic abrahamic god (yahweh or jehovah) was a god of war (the Semitic equivalent of Mars or Ares) and used to be part of a pantheon of gods and even had a wife (ashera), but then he was promoted to The God of Everything as a deliberate political move by a Yahwist king and all worship now was directed only to him , later than 650 BCE. We don't really have good evidence to suggest the Hebrews were ever in Egypt, and we would expect to see such evidence if the Egyptians systematically enslaved an entire race, but this can actually be disputed, even just by saying "It was long enough ago, and the Egyptians wouldn't have wanted to remember this."
Judaism says God created the universe in six days, created day and night before the sun, created people who were deceived into eating a magical fruit by a talking snake, and frequently interfered with human affairs like some twisted warlord until he mysteriously, um, stopped.
Christianity says everything Judaism does, and then says the talking snake was actually a devil who is still constantly trying to trick us, and God fathered his son who is actually him, who was born of a virgin, then sacrificed himself to himself so he could allow himself to forgive you for being born, because your great-great-great-great...great grandfather was tricked into eating a magical fruit by a talking snake.

semitic desert death cults are a fucking fraud

>>18769795
Thracians had a god they would sacrifice to by giving a guy a message to send to the god and throwing him on a spear

>>18769795
Sorry goyim, your cosmic blood debt is owed with interest. Now you owe two debts since Jesus died and you're responsible for it even though you weren't alive two thousand years ago. Now pay up by pledging fealty to the jewish master ra- I mean him or have fun getting tortured and raped in the realm of burning sulfur he made for the rest of eternity while he laughs in amusement at your suffering because that's something a loving, benevolent, merciful god would totally do.

>>18770981
His descriptions are pure fabrications typical of muzzies

>>18769795
>Traditional Christians literally hinge their entire religion around a human sacrifice
Wrong. A hero's sacrifice and a "human sacrifice" have very different connotations.
"A human sacrifice" 100% always requires a religious ritualistic component. Jesus' execution was just a standard Roman practice. No religious ritualism whatsoever. Saying it was "a human sacrifice" is wrong.