Human sacrifice#
Summary#
Human sacrifice appears as the first rung on Nietzsche’s great ladder of religious cruelty, representing the primitive stage where men sacrificed human beings to their God, often those they loved best. This practice includes firstling sacrifices of all primitive religions and the notorious sacrifice of Emperor Tiberius in the Mithra-Grotto. It precedes the moral epoch’s sacrifice of one’s strongest instincts and the final stage of sacrificing God himself for nothingness.