Re: Mak

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 68470
Date: 2012-02-02



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