Blood And The Necronomicon, The four beast Options

Hello all:
I understand that a tool to stray from the Elder gods and call the Ancient Ones is a sword that has killed 11 men. (Not interested in that one)

However there is another place in the book where reference is made to blood sacrifice, and it seems to relate to a normal practicioner. In his epilogue the mad arab says (pg 206):

'Know that the four Beasts of the Spaces claim the blood of the initiate, eachin their own time and season'

1) What does that mean? are those the same beasts for the cardinal points described in pg 190?

2) I take it to mean that blood sacrifices should be made to them, on a particular day. Is this correct?

3) Or does it mean that as part of the initiation or walking the path we must fight them and be 'bloodied' by them?

P.S in page 207 it says no sacrifices to be made if one finds out that a gate has been open (as the fiends will feed on it) this implies that the normal sacrifices are by spilled blood. He mentions 'the flocks of Palestine' as possible sacrifices... What where they, sheep, cattle?

4) Does any one currently praying to the gods uses animal sacrifices? (chickens, squirreles, etc) or since not necessary it has been left behind as not 'politucally correct'


Any thoughts in this subject are appreciated..

Traveller.

For me spilling the blood of animals are done by cowards who dont have the courage to spill their own bloods. Spilling blood gives off lots of energy and this is used by the entity to manifest. Those who might be having some self dignity would spill their own as its they who will benefit from that not the chicken or sheep they are slaughtering.
well some might claim that they after wards cook that animal and eat it, but are you sure you killed the animal properly etc?
anyone might come with something like telling me in very ancient manuscripts its written etc etc, and i would still say that those dudes who wrote those manuscripts did not have balls :-)

So that was my point of view. If any magician does animal sacrifices and feel that i have offended them, then you are right i offended you and if you are not done with that, i got 2 words for ya (IMG:style_emoticons/default/5.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/banana.gif)