the Wheel and Dating PIE

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>frank at uiowa.edu writes:

>Ritualization of the death of an animal, asking its forgiveness when the
>hunter is about to take its life, it not unusual in traditional cultures,
>whether that animal be a bear or a rabbit.

-- in some.  In others, they just kill the damned thing.

Primarily ritual _use_ of an animal is usually fairly easy to distinguish
from routine use, whether the later is accompanied by ritual or not.

Eg., if you find the complete skeleton of a horse in a grave, with no
disturbance of the bones or butchering marks, it's a sacrifice.