Show Maidens Sacrificed to the Indian God of War Human II sacrifice to the gods of war may have been widely diffused In North America Dr Truman Michelson of the bureau of American ethnology y of the tho Smithsonian Institution has hns gathered considerable evidence eV linguistic and otherwise that a 1 practice supposedly confined to the Aztecs and to time the Morning Star rites ril's of the may have ha ve extended ex t over the eastern I part of the continent In the Mexican practice the heart of the victim was vas emit cut out with a stone knife I I fe The Th Pawnee ceremony entailed the sacrifice c of or a i maiden Doctor Michelson finds the Ojibwa had a specific word n which was translated as a 1 virgin lr ln whom pa pa- pagan pagan gan Jan Indians place on an nn elevated scaffold scaffold fold In order to obtain success In war The word tor Michelson finds can be traced back to two roots which would mean hanging Banging a n woman From the vague ue references of the missionary journals It appears that the burned n a maiden at nt the stake on nit an on elevated platform It was wasa a sacrifice quite different In principle from the burning humin of prisoners of war at the time stake Because It attracted so little attention n a deduction might be drawn that the ceremony seldom was practiced or may ma even have evolved e Into the symbolic burning of the figure Ii ure of a n maiden before any white men came In contact with it |