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What did an Altar look like to sacrifice animals? Has there ever been a historically acurrate depiction one in pictures or movies? (lemmy.world)
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[–] disregardable@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

https://universes.art/en/art-destinations/jordan/petra/high-place-sacrifice/altar-1

I found this. My first strategy was to look up pictures of eid-al-adha (Islamic festival of sacrifice), and it seems like today people also choose to kill the animal on the ground separately from the worship ceremony. Which makes sense.