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Often appears with: the problem of evil and theodicy · sacrifice and ritual · religious persecution and toleration · human sacrifice · heracles legend · egyptian dietary and sacrificial rules · debunking greek myth
Usually: argument (1) · censure (1)
“For I shall not say that that which is done in worship of the god in Egypt came accidentally to be the same with that which is done among the Hellenes, for then these rites would have been in character with the Hellenic worship and not lately brought in;” Herodotus, The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 · insight
He rejects a Greek story that Egyptians tried to sacrifice Heracles, arguing that Egyptians do not sacrifice humans and only allow certain animals, and he calls the tale implausible both morally and practically.
taste of it: the poor however among them by reason of the scantiness of their means shape pigs of dough and having baked them they offer these as a sacrifice. 48. Then for Dionysos on the eve of the festival each one kills a pig by cutting its throat before his own doors, and after that he gives the pig to the swineherd who sold it to him, to carry away again; and the rest of the feast of Dionysos is celebrated by t…