Re: Mak

The Sumerians and later, the Hittites, left texts regarding pig sacrifices.

Sumer:

Eat not this flesh: food avoidances from prehistory to the present - Google Books Result

books.google.com/books?isbn=029914254X...

Hittites:

Pigs at the Gate: Hittite Pig Sacrifice in Its Eastern ... - Emory University

emory.academia.edu/.../Pigs_at_the_Gate_Hittite_Pig_Sacrifice_in_It...

The Chinese have been sacrificing swine a long time also.  Excerpt:

"Neolithic China

Archaeological evidence from Neolithic China shows a remarkable amount of care and ritual with regard to burial practices. Characteristics of 5th millennium BCE burial practices include:

• consistency of orientation and posture - the dead of the northwest were given a westerly orientation and those of the east an easterly one.
• segregation of the dead into what appear to be kinship groupings
• graveside ritual offerings of liquids, pig skulls, and pig jaws
• collective secondary burial, in which the bones of up to 70 or 80 corpses were stripped of their flesh and reburied together"

http://www.religionfacts.com/chinese_religion/history.htm

Pig and boar sacrifices are probably older than barbeque sauce.

Peace,
Demetria Nanos, Chicago

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> From: Torsten tgpedersen@...
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2012 6:05 AM
> Subject: [tied] Re: Mak
>
>
>  
>
> >
> > Pigs were used for sacrifice both in East Asia and Europe. If pigs
> > came from East Asia (there is a genetic introgression in European
> > pigs from East Asian pigs, which researches would really, really
> > like to interpret as the result of imports of the last 200 years),
> > http://www.genetics.org/content/154/4/1785.full
> > either pig sacrifice was invented both places, or it came along with
> > the animal itself. If so, terminology may have been borrowed.
> ****R
> With the arrival of the Spaniards, pigs quickly substituted humans in sacrifices. Supposedly, they taste like human flesh. But, in any case, they grow quickly and don't require a lot of care. In much of the Third World, they roam the streets and compete with dogs for scraps and garbage.
>
> Romans sacrificed pigs at the conclusion of pacts after peace negotiations, as described by Livy's History 1,24,4
> http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=liv.%201.24&lang=original
> http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/livy/liv.1.shtml#24
> cf
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetial
>
> Torsten
>