An overview of the tradition of human sacrifice, the roots of which go back to ancient times, and numerous echoes in the form of various bloodless rites remain to this day. Those readers who want to tickle nerves with bloody scenes, the authors immediately warn that they tried to reduce the description of atrocities to a minimum. And not always the sacrifices were bloody. In many religions of the world are known, for example, the tradition of consecrating living people to the gods, who continued to live and live, but already being the "property" or "spouse" of the deity. Archaeologists easily relate to the attributes of death, and it is not uncommon to excavate people who simultaneously clean the skeleton and eat an apple. And yet it is one thing to see the remains of a man who was carefully equipped on the last journey by his loved ones, and quite another a man who was in the name of an unknown and today already forgotten religion mercilessly killed in this very place thousands of years ago.