Sacrifice of Ibrim

The Sacrifice of Ibrim is an ancient folk tale, one of the canon of instructional tales used by the church of the Mother Of All Aspects in the old Empire of Dor-en-Sann.

In the tale, Ibrim has two sons, and is asked to murder one of his children to prove the love for his god. At the last minute a caretyne appears, and lays its head on the sacrificial stone - an intervention by the goddess to slay herplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigHerbs

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instead. The story is a moral tale, demonstrating that any god who demands human life and human blood must be a false god, not worthy of worship. The title has a double meaning, since the true sacrifice Ibrim is his own free will and his moral principles. At the last, he also sacrifices his false faith and embraces the will of the Mother.

Originally included in the Cataplectic Gospels of the Imperial Church, the tale was included in the Analect of Just Works, a collection of philosophical texts from before the time of the Therion, judged to be in according with the teachings of the Great Prophet. It is certainly an ancient tale found in early Thalsic culture, and may far predate it.

 
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