A cow was killed to pray the god.

The cruelest act of human is sacrificing someone without proper reason; it’s wasting a person’s life. Everyone has his/her own right to live. But ancient people didn’t care about this; they simply sacrifice a person for rain or healthier crops. Some cruel kings kill their own people without reason to take out his anger.

The Maya Empire was one of the nations which sacrificed most people. The territory of Maya in the Middle America sometimes experience the hot season, and the crops doesn’t grow properly. So the Mayan simply kills a person with a sacrificial knife or pushes them into a sacrificial pool. Egyptian and some cruel Chinese emperor also order somebody to be sacrificed for better weather.

Some natural phenomenon also causes a person to be sacrificed, like eclipse. Ancient people thought that an eclipse happens because the gods are raging. To release the wrath, the gods let people to suffer without a sun. This case tells us about the ignorant of ancient people, they are short of science knowledge.

But sometime a sacrifice must be done, for an example, war. For millions of years, people battle to gain benefits, to expand their territory, to become a conqueror or an emperor, for wealth. But in this progress, somebody might have to die. Many soldier or even a commander has to sacrifice himself in the battle. But this kind of sacrifice is worthy, they’ll be remembered.

Sometimes, we have to pay to get something we want.