human sacrifice

offering of a human being to a god or goddess in tribute, as an act of repentance, to ask forgiveness, or in exchange for a favor
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human sacrifice

Summary

human sacrifice ranks in the top 0.74% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,387 views/month, #575 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • human sacrifice's image is recorded as Kinderopfer 2.jpg[2].
  • human sacrifice's image is recorded as Tarpeia's Punishment.png[3].
  • human sacrifice's image is recorded as Suttee. Wellcome V0041335.jpg[4].
  • human sacrifice's image is recorded as Maya vessel with sacrificial scene DMA 2005-26.jpg[5].
  • human sacrifice's image is recorded as Codex Magliabechiano (141 cropped).jpg[6].
  • human sacrifice's image is recorded as Arago – 'Supplice Sandwich'.jpg[7].
  • human sacrifice's image is recorded as Llullaillaco mummies in Salta city, Argentina.jpg[8].
  • human sacrifice's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85116392[9].
  • human sacrifice's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11963583q[10].
  • human sacrifice's subclass of is recorded as sacrifice[11].
  • human sacrifice's subclass of is recorded as homicide[12].
  • human sacrifice's subclass of is recorded as cause of death[13].
  • human sacrifice's Commons category is recorded as Human sacrifice[14].
  • human sacrifice's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 35596[15].
  • human sacrifice's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0ksyk[16].
  • human sacrifice's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph738551[17].
  • human sacrifice's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Human sacrifice[18].
  • human sacrifice's described by source is recorded as Der Volks-Brockhaus[19].
  • human sacrifice's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[20].
  • human sacrifice's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[21].
  • human sacrifice's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/human-sacrifice[22].
  • human sacrifice's BBC Things ID is recorded as b7ceb104-847b-4b07-b3af-6c3670e78694[23].
  • human sacrifice's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00067941n[24].
  • human sacrifice's Quora topic ID is recorded as Human-Sacrifice[25].
  • human sacrifice's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as human-sacrifices[26].

Why It Matters

human sacrifice ranks in the top 0.74% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,387 views/month, #575 of 77,819).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [9] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  14. [15] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
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  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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