A holocaust is a religious animal sacrifice that is completely consumed by fire. The word derives from the Ancient Greekholocaustos (ὁλόκαυστος from ὅλος "whole" and καυστός "burnt"), which is used solely for one of the major forms of sacrifice.
Greek sacrifice
Holokautein (ὁλοκαυτεῖν) was one of the two chief verbs of Greek sacrifice, in which the victim is utterly destroyed and burnt up, as opposed to thyesthai (θύεσθαι), to share a meal with the god and one's fellow worshippers, commensal sacrifice. In the latter, the edible parts of the sacrificed animal were roasted and distributed for festive celebration, whereas the inedible parts were burned on the altar, those being the god's share. Although not actually obliged to do so, Greeks would rather sacrifice a domestic animal to a god or hero and then proceed to use its flesh as food, as animals were thought of as sharing in the sanctity of life - in addition to their secular usefulness (milk, eggs, ploughing). This did not apply to game, fish, and other seafood, which formed a far larger proportion of the diet then than they do today - fish was the major foodstuff sold in ancient Greek marketplaces. A sacrifice need not be a public function involving priests and altars; they could also be held privately, domestically or individually.
The story is set in Jin, a ducal state under the Zhou dynasty, during the Spring and Autumn period in ancient China. Zhao Dun, the chancellor of Jin, and his son, General Zhao Shuo, have a feud with General Tu'an Gu. Tu'an Gu secretly murders the Duke of Jin and pushes the blame to the Zhao family, using that as an excuse to massacre the Zhao family. The sole survivor is Zhao Shuo's baby son, Zhao Wu, whose mother is the Duke's elder sister, Lady Zhuang. Lady Zhuang pleads with Tu'an Gu's subordinate, Han Jue, to spare her child. She then instructs Cheng Ying, a physician, to bring the child to Gongsun Chujiu, a friend of the Zhao family, before committing suicide. When Tu'an Gu learns that the orphan had escaped, he slashes his sword at Han Jue's face in anger and disfigures him. Tu'an Gu then issues an order to seal the gates and to gather all newborn babies in the city. The plan was to identify the Zhao orphan since Tu'an Gu was counting on the person hiding the baby to not hand over the baby to him, hence singling out the one baby left in the city to be the Zhao infant.
Sacrifice is Sylver's fifth studio album, released on 12 May 2009 in Belgium. The workingtitle was 'Resurrection', in the end Sylver decided to name the album 'Sacrifice'.
Guitarist John Miles Jr. (son of John Miles) is also on the album cover, who joined the band a short while before.
Track listing
CD album (Cat.No. ARS 2706974)
Singles
"One World One Dream" was released as the first single from the album. It was also used as the theme for the Olympics 2008. It charted at #21 in Belgium.
"Rise Again" was chosen as the second single from the album at the end of 2008. The single also charted at #21 in Belgium
"I Hate You Now" was released as the third single in March 2009 before the album was released. It became a success for Sylver and it charted at #8 in Belgium
"Foreign Affair" has been released on 12 June 2009, as the fourth single from the album. It proved to be the most successful single from the album, which is unusual for a fourth single, and it charted at #3 in Belgium. Their highest chart position there since "Skin" in 2001 charted at #2.
Sacrifice is the twentieth studio album by British heavy metal band Saxon. It was released on 1 March 2013 in Europe, 4 March in the United Kingdom and 26 March in the United States.
Background and production
In late January 2012, drummer Nigel Glockler revealed on Facebook that the band was getting ready to write a followup to the previous year's Call to Arms. About a month later Glockler revealed, again via Facebook, that he and guitarist Doug Scarratt were convening in Glockler's home studio to write before a band meeting in March.
On 30 March 2012, vocalist Biff Byford issued an update stating that the band have a few ideas, and that he had started writing and arranging melodies. Additionally, in July 2012, two short videos were released via YouTube that show band members jamming in the studio.
In mid-August, the band released an update regarding the album. It was revealed that only a few vocals and other small things had yet to be completed. It was also announced that the album would most likely be produced by Andy Sneap. By the end of August, it was announced that the recording had been completed, and Andy Sneap was getting ready to mix the record. By October, the mixing process had been completed.
Holocaust is an American television miniseries broadcast in four parts in 1978 on the NBC television network. The series tells the story of the Holocaust from the perspective of the (fictional) Weiss family of GermanJews and that of a rising member of the SS, who gradually becomes a merciless war criminal. Holocaust highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War II, such as Kristallnacht, the creation of Jewish ghettos and later, the use of gas chambers. Although the miniseries won several awards and received critical acclaim, it was criticized by some, including noted Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel, who described it as "untrue and offensive."
The series was presented in four parts:
Part 1: The Gathering Darkness (original airdate: April 16, 1978)
Part 2: The Road to Babi Yar (original airdate: April 17, 1978)
Part 3: The Final Solution (original airdate: April 18, 1978)
Part 4: The Saving Remnant (original airdate: April 19, 1978)
Despite doomsday warnings from throngs of locals, wealthy industrialist Robert Caine (Kirk Douglas) makes the controversial decision to build a nuclear power plant near a sacred cave in the Middle East. But before Caine can reap the benefits of his latest bid for global domination, he discovers that his son, Angel (Simon Ward), is the Antichrist, who is planning to use his father's project to trigger the end of the world.
“We will make sure that the Holocaust is never forgotten, and never again repeated.” ... 'The word Holocaust is derived from the Greek holokauston, a translation of the Hebrew word ʿolah, meaning a burnt sacrifice offered whole to God.
Meyssan, Henry Makow and others have finally woken up the majority of the Jews to the fact the holocaust was a mass sacrifice, or burnt offering to Satan, led by people hiding in their own midst.
This warning came in the Rockefeller-controlled Foreign Affairs magazine, indicating the Rockefellers and their KM cohorts are hoping to stage a huge holocaust (sacrifice to Satan) in order to have an ...
The Satan worshippers always stage some sort of massive fire sacrifice or holocaust to Satan on or around that June 21st date. Not only that, messianic fanatics in Israel promised to sacrifice a red ...
Throughout the day, Holocaust survivors were celebrated at social gatherings held globally and in our community for their courage, strength and sacrifices ...Entertainment was provided by the Holocaust SurvivorBand.
What people in the West need to realize is that the holocaust was a mass sacrifice to Satan in order to initiate Satanic rule over the world. The Temple the Satanists planned to build was to be a place of human and animal sacrifice ... (translation ... ....
And she recently revealed that her special interests as a child included the Holocaust, human sacrifices by ancient Mayans and the original Grimm fairytales, among other gory stories.
A Holocaust memorial sits on one corner of the campus, and I knew its significance. When I entered public middle school, I was, for the first time, surrounded by people lacking the generational memory of the Holocaust.
The horrors of Holocaust are kept just out of sight in Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest ... Recognising this, Glazer decides to rethink Holocaust films, how they are made, and how they are seen ... The Holocaust didn’t begin in the gas chambers.
We pray to Allah to grant them success in their mission and burn them all and Netanyahu’s house at the same time ... They are a sacrifice he’s very willing to make, and then he will go around saying “I tried to save them but they died in a Holocaust.”.
The Khazarian mafia is planning a holocaust or mass murder event for the US Christian heartland on April 8th... The holocaust planned for this sacrifice WILL BE STOPPED.
Neither is there at this time prince, or leader, or prophet, or holocaust, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, or place of first-fruits before thee, that we may find thy mercy ... sacrifice, or temple.
'It felt uncomfortable to compare the Holocaust to killing animals, but Alex told us that the word Holocaust originally referred to a Jewish animal sacrifice which meant barbecued on the altar, a ...
Pierson said that none of the cemetery's proposed solutions would allow Schwartz to rest beside her husband and her parents, Holocaust survivors Evelyn and Joseph Greenblatt.
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10 Jun 2024
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10 Jun 2024