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human sacrifice

offering of a human being to a god or goddess in tribute, as an act of repentance, to ask forgiveness, or in exchange for a favor
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Summary

human sacrifice ranks in the top 0.74% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,975 views/month, #575 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: sacrifice[2], homicide[3], cause of death[4]
  • Commons category: Human sacrifice[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Human sacrifice[6]
  • Described by source: Der Volks-Brockhaus[7], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[8], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[9], Pauly–Wissowa[10]

Why It Matters

human sacrifice has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14d ago · THEbotIT bot · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 55
    Described by source → Der Volks-Brockhaus, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890) +1
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'bg', 'bn', 'br', 'cs', 'cy', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Described by source: Pauly–Wissowa, Add reference to a lexicon article."
  2. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → human-sacrifice
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: human-sacrifice, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289933513|human sacrifice (#289933513)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper'"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0450919-lidske-obeti
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0450919-lidske-obeti, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259490|batch #259490]]"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Human sacrifice
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → sacrifice, homicide, cause of death
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007551065205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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