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.

Hi Traveller. Hey dont worry about my words. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) they were not directed to you dude. I was just giving my opinion of what i think of blood sacrifice of animals. I got carried a bit on that i guess. LOL. Its just that for me i would not sacrifice an animal to have the energy to empower a ritual of mine. if needed i would better use my own blood for that. I dont say i dont eat chicken or sheep. But killing an animal to shed its blood for a ritual is not something i would not do. But i dont know now to what extent the nec encourages or discourages this as i am still novice but let the more experienced ones reply.



Its real good that you try to learn on all these stuff. Hopefully to answer your question on the 4, the more experienced Nec magicians will help you out.



Take care Traveller and be blessed.





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