Earth Worship

The Ritual of Offering to the Earth Goddess and the Origin of Human Sacrifice in the Achaemenid Period

/ Assistant Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Literature, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran

Pages: 81 - 103 Receive Date: 2025/08/27 Accept Date: 2026/01/19 Publish Date: 2026/06/08

doi 10.22034/marefateadyan.2026.5002533✓

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Earth Worship

The Ritual of Offering to the Earth Goddess and the Origin of Human Sacrifice in the Achaemenid Period

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