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parallel Sacrifices

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Although the representation of the biblical passage of Abraham's sacrifice is common in our Roman art, few studies that have addressed the origins of the archetypal symbolism from the perspective of different cultures archaic for understanding the essence its meaning and, thereby, help relocate the signifier of its use in that precise time of the Middle Ages, explaining.

Let's start by stating that every sacrifice meant the institutionalization of a new order, in that the primitive man would resort to it only as a last resort, when all the steps made to the gods, demons or witches, with In order to remove a condition, had failed. His conception of suffering is attributable only to the divine will, and because it intervenes directly to produce it, and because it allows other forces cause it.

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Therefore, from a formal point of view, the representation of the sacrifice of Abraham but would not be a cultural reference to the traditional conception of archaic civilizations, in which the first child was regarded as the god and was, through his sacrifice, and was returned to the divinity that belonged only to her, restoring and regenerating the established order the flow of sacred energy in the cosmos.

And in a sense, also Isaac was the son of a god, because "the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised" (Gen. 21.1), sexual connotation as sentence used to save the memory East of the archaic custom of girls spend a night in the temple to be fertilized by the God, or his representative or "sent."

As is well known, the sacrifice of Isaac was over, at the request of God, with the exchange of young by a ram.

A myth, in parallel, as occurs in Euripides, in his "Iphigenia in Aulis" says the passage demands that the goddess that is offered in sacrifice the daughter of King Agamemnon, Iphigenia, but like Isaac, the order of the goddess, in the last minute ordering the killing of a deer instead.

. . ........................... is brought to sacrifice Isaac. Tarragona Cathedral

Iphigenia is brought to the pyre.

Roman Mosaic from Empúries (Girona)

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Just as the sacrifice Iphigenia was designed to foster favorable winds for the deployment of the fleet, and rabbinic texts, and Jewish liturgy, not even explain why Genesis God asks Abraham to sacrifice his son, which would end up presenting Judeo-Christianity Abraham as a model of righteous obedience, through the introduction of a new religious category, "faith."

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It would thus break with the archetypes of repetition and cyclical and, ultimately, to mark the end of the usual to sacrifice the firstborn divinity.

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A ridiculous nonsense, when finally, after all, the myth of primordial sacrifice will come back with death on the cross of the only begotten of the very God in whose name the Old Order was abolished.

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. The sacrifice of Isaac holds a theophany, simply.

In Canaan, Isaac means "laughable."

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