Leo T. reviewed on 3/8/2011 + 1775 more book reviews

"While in general the service of the gods is considered inherently meritorious and beneficial, there can be situations when the demands of a god conflict with the tenets of accepted morality. Thus there is a tradition that the men of Purka clan were once faced by their clan-gods' demand for a human sacrifice, but rather than comply with this gruesome command they rushed to the nearest river, and threw the sacred whisk symbolizing the female clan-deity into the water, and hence have performed the sacrificial rites only with a symbol of the male god who accepts the sacrifice of a goat and a cow." Bibliography and index.

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