[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Dog Gone]

This was done to appease the typhoon gods who were continually directing storms to his location.

[martin_fierro]

They Shot Horses, Didn't They?

[StormEye]

"When a favourite horse died, the horses' raisers would also be killed and buried together with the horses for sacrifice. It was brutal, but it proves the important role of horses at that time.

Who in their right mind would want
to go into that line of work?

[Little Bill]

You are a Texan and I am from Utah, where are the wild Mustangs from Asia.

[Michael.SF.]

Stories Of Sacrificed Horses

Wonder if they had to also be virgin horses?

[Fairview]

The archaeologists who conjectured about this were not horsemen. I can't imagine how anybody could get horses to take "a lot of alcohol," enough to make them nearly unconscious. You can get some horses to occasionally drink a bottle of beer, but not "a lot of alcohol" as the article suggests.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[SunkenCiv]

"According to archaeologists' speculation, these horses were fed with a lot of alcohol and fell into unconsciousness. Then they were beaten to death on the head with some heavy tools. It can be seen from the horses' broken skulls now."

Sounds like a bunch of real horse-lovers. Not a fetishistic cult of horse-killers. Not at all.