Sacrifice

A simple definition of the word sacrifice is to give up a cherished possession for the sake of something better, whether it is for another human life, for protection, or even for religious beliefs. The act of sacrificing dates all the way back to more than 200,000 years ago during the times of the Homo sapiens, to the ancient greek mythologies, and all the way up to the 1950s throughout the life of Martin Luther King. Sacrificing something for the belief of a better life has always been present as human beings evolved, as well as how they perform it. Scarification has accompanied with human history since all the way back to when the homo sapiens first offered themselves to satisfy the Gods through their religious rituals. The homo sapiens took part in the act of sacrificing their own blood and flesh to the Gods that they believed were present. They would either murder the least necessary ones from the tribe, or a whole bunch of clans killed altogether, or even cut their flesh with sharp stones to collect and gather the blood as an offering to their Gods. This act of killing violently had been the most popular sacrifice during the period of the Homo sapiens. There are never ending lists and lists of famous sacrifices during the times of the Greek mythology, including the sacrifice of Iphigeneia. The story of Iphigeneia is a one of the most famous sacrifices in the Greek mythology where it is about a beautiful young girl sacrificed for the consequence of her father challenging the goddess of hunting, Artemis. Sacrifices during the times of the Greek mythology was not as violent and gruesome compared to the times of the homo sapiens, but it still involved the death of innocent ones. It is indicated and clearly shown that as the time slowly passes by, the method of sacrificing is changing and improving just as the humans are evolving. The 1950s was when it was the time when Martin Luther King was at his peak of activeness in the African-American Civil Rights