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When the going got tough, it was believed sacrificing a virgin to the gods—by throwing them into the sea, burying them alive, or leaving them for hungry monsters—was the best plan. Virgin sacrifice could be done for a number of widely accepted reasons: from winning a war, to appeasing an angry deity, or merely to protect architecture. For a time, the practice seemed to be widely recognized as many cultures show traces of virgin sacrifice in their mythologies and religious texts. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"41647","attributes":{"alt":"The Ancient Egyptians throwing a Virgin into the Nile, 1884 ","class":"media-image","height":"431","style":"width: 610px; height: 431px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] The Ancient Egyptians throwing a Virgin into the Nile, 1884 ( Public Domain ) Gods are Listening: Hasty Promises You Shouldn’t Have Made In Homeric
