Children from a few weeks old

Tombstone
They were mostly children from a few weeks old - both boys and girls - who were sacrificed. The remains of the children were buried. On the tombstones can be read that the god to whom children were sacrificed 'my voice heard and blessed me. " "People have tried to say that this archaeological burial sites were for children who were stillborn or died very young," says researcher Josephine Quinn.


"But apart from the fact that a weak, sick or dead child is a very bad sacrifice to a god would be and the fact that the remains of animals treated in exactly the same way to the same spots are detected, it is difficult to imagine that was the death of a child seen as an answer to a prayer. "
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Motivation
Why the children were sacrificed, is still a mystery. "It's very difficult for us to the motivations of people to do this to find out. Maybe it was out of piety or the thought that the good things the sacrifice brought with the family or community outweighed the life of the child. We also have high mortality rates among children remember:

 it would have been better if parents were not too attached to a child who probably would not get "his first birthday once wisely.