Blood drinking
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Also: loss of blood, drinking the blood.
The ancient social brotherhoods were based on the rite of blood drinking; the early Jewish fraternity was a sacrificial blood affair. 89:9.3
belief blood was seat of soul gave origin to the practice of blood drinking 84:2.1
The embryonic state was made possible by the decline of the blood bond in favor of the territorial, and such tribal federations were usually firmly cemented by conquest. 71:1.23
The first treaties of peace were the “blood bonds”. 70:3.10
The adherents of the cult of Mithra worshiped in caves and other secret places, chanting hymns, mumbling magic, eating the flesh of the sacrificial animals, and drinking the blood. 98:5.4
Blood drinking became common, and it was customary to mix the “edible” parts of the body with medicines. 89:5.11
blood drinking as a seal of personal friendship and as a token of group loyalty 66:5.22 70:3.7
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- Blood of everlasting covenant 89:9.3 — Heb 13:20.
- Jesus seen as a human sacrifice 89:9.3 — 1 Co 5:7; Eph 5:2; Col 1:14; Tit 2:14; Heb 9:11-28; Heb 10:1-20; Heb 13:12; 1 P 1:18-19.
- Blood of life 84:2.1 — Lv 15:19; Lv 17:11.
Where it appears
Blood drinking is linked in 1 paragraph of the text.