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.

Sorry I should not have gone into blood sacrifices in general, I know it has been discussed in other posts...

What I really want to concentrate on is the Four Beast that 'claim the blood of the initiate' I take this to mean its my own blood.

1) Has any one encountered the 4 beasts?
2) What does the above mean? That is, Do I sacrifice to them? or Do I fight them and then they claim my blood by injuring me?

I dont want to come close to making even a bread sacrifice to some 'bad' entity... So are they the good guys or bad guys (Ancient ones).

They seem to be related to the gates of the N,E,S and W gates.

Traveller

Again sorry for starting a discussion on animals sacrifices in general, got carried away.