When I became one
When did you realize that mods are gods?
How did they know the masks were for mocking child sacrifices?
It isn't a sacrifice if you don't care about or if you despise the victim.
For example, when I bled my father on the horrid altar of the polytropic, solar God - that God of infinite subtlety, He of threes whose reach no man or beast or thing exceeds - I wept buttery tears that fell fat and with the crimson intermixed. This too was a sacrifice of grace and native wonder. Only those things most precious to us are fitting to be given up, so it was ever thus.
It's plobable that they did sacrifice children. The israelites may have done so themselves at one point, since their god commanded abraham to do so with isaac before changing his mind.
The carthaginians, who were a colonial offshoot of the phoenecians and probably vaguely similar to the canaanites in terms of culture, also sacrificed offspring and stored the remains in a site called a tophet, but nobody ever did this gladly.
Iirc such a site has been discovered by archeologists this century
Considering how young people married then, and the Middle Eastern predeliction for child marriages even when compared with contemporary cultures, I wonder how young a child sacrifice actually was, to be considered apart from other sacrifices. Probably about five or six years old, if not younger.
It's not a nice thing to think about. Hideous thing to do
