I will say the practice of putting a creature on Sacrifice or "Bali" has long existed in Hinduism.
Mel Gibson movie did touch upon that fact in 'Apocalypto' where native Americans where indulging in the practice of putting human beings to sacrifice.
The movie shows how Western influence came and now the practice has become practically non-existent.
I will say forget Native Americans and look towards the country of Hindus i.e. India or Hindustan.
Here also what I feel that Bali practice did exist.
Now even today in many temples mainly belonging to Mother deity or Maa or Kali Maa by whatever name we may call the presiding deity, this system of sacrificing animals exist.
The Govt. i.e. State and local Govt.s are trying a lot to reduce or prevent or minimise this practice.
But people will carry on the traditions or a few brave ones will and will violate all Govt. orders and restrictions for the same.
It is like in pre-Independence India when the British Govt. outlawed the system of child marriage, Indians would have taken great pleasure in violating the laws and conducting those child marriages in secret, and in the dead of the night.
Now what is achieved by Bali or sacrifice of animals.
One thing is that we know life is created by God and upon death to God we shall return. What if the same thing is applicable to animals also.
When an animal is dead it also returns to God. If rebirth exists then based upon its "Karma" whether good actions or bad actions God will be deciding where that soul would be born next.
Even if we disregard the theory of rebirth, we know that an animal life is extinguished during the Bali practice and the body remains whereas the 'life element' or soul of the animal is gone.
What if it goes to God.
People pray to God. People have full faith and belief that God will fulfill all their wishes and that is the reason we find Hindus speaking in the ears of mouse statues or rat statues in Ganesh temples or bull (Nandi) statue or cow statue in Shiva or Narayan temples.
Now they speak to a live animal and then place the sacrifice and it gets killed and immediately the animals' soul reaches the Lord Almighty and the animal or the soul of the animal repeats to the Lord what was said to it in the moments before he was sacrificed.
Thus Lord Almighty takes note of the same and takes all out effort to fulfill the wishes of the one who has placed the sacrifice.
And that my friends is probably the reason for the Bali practice in Hinduism. That is my theory. Also, in Hinduism women i.e. married women put Sindoor in the forehead to indicate they are married.
But in Ancient times, I feel that this Sindoor which is now Sindoor was blood and people used to put blood on their foreheads.
Centuries of rule and invasion by civilised people from West, Arabs, Persians and Europeans have probably changed the practice of applying blood to Sindoor which is known as 'vermilion powder'.
Mel Gibson movie did touch upon that fact in 'Apocalypto' where native Americans where indulging in the practice of putting human beings to sacrifice.
The movie shows how Western influence came and now the practice has become practically non-existent.
I will say forget Native Americans and look towards the country of Hindus i.e. India or Hindustan.
Here also what I feel that Bali practice did exist.
Now even today in many temples mainly belonging to Mother deity or Maa or Kali Maa by whatever name we may call the presiding deity, this system of sacrificing animals exist.
The Govt. i.e. State and local Govt.s are trying a lot to reduce or prevent or minimise this practice.
But people will carry on the traditions or a few brave ones will and will violate all Govt. orders and restrictions for the same.
It is like in pre-Independence India when the British Govt. outlawed the system of child marriage, Indians would have taken great pleasure in violating the laws and conducting those child marriages in secret, and in the dead of the night.
Now what is achieved by Bali or sacrifice of animals.
One thing is that we know life is created by God and upon death to God we shall return. What if the same thing is applicable to animals also.
When an animal is dead it also returns to God. If rebirth exists then based upon its "Karma" whether good actions or bad actions God will be deciding where that soul would be born next.
Even if we disregard the theory of rebirth, we know that an animal life is extinguished during the Bali practice and the body remains whereas the 'life element' or soul of the animal is gone.
What if it goes to God.
People pray to God. People have full faith and belief that God will fulfill all their wishes and that is the reason we find Hindus speaking in the ears of mouse statues or rat statues in Ganesh temples or bull (Nandi) statue or cow statue in Shiva or Narayan temples.
Now they speak to a live animal and then place the sacrifice and it gets killed and immediately the animals' soul reaches the Lord Almighty and the animal or the soul of the animal repeats to the Lord what was said to it in the moments before he was sacrificed.
Thus Lord Almighty takes note of the same and takes all out effort to fulfill the wishes of the one who has placed the sacrifice.
And that my friends is probably the reason for the Bali practice in Hinduism. That is my theory. Also, in Hinduism women i.e. married women put Sindoor in the forehead to indicate they are married.
But in Ancient times, I feel that this Sindoor which is now Sindoor was blood and people used to put blood on their foreheads.
Centuries of rule and invasion by civilised people from West, Arabs, Persians and Europeans have probably changed the practice of applying blood to Sindoor which is known as 'vermilion powder'.
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