Blasphemous said:
No idea where you grandfather got this idea... Human sacrifice is strictly non-Jewish. Judaism rose in its creation against the region's paganism and multiple gods and worship of statues and inanimate objects (and iirc, its ritual human sacrifice). Once the religion was fully formed I highly doubt there was any ritual human sacrifice carried out normally.
He's dead now so alas I can't ask him, which is a pity as he was an archaeologist in the middle-east. I think the sacrifice he referred to was not strictly sanctioned as part of judaism, but was practiced occasionally - in times of crisis, by some misguided ancient hebrews.
The encyclopeadia brittanica says
"Hebrews: This member of the Semitic family was no less prone than the rest to human sacrifices...."
and the Harper's Bible Dictionary says
"Human sacrifice was exceptional among the ancient Hebrews, although we still read, 'The firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me' (Ex. 22:29, cb. 13:2). The Israelites very early substituted, like Abraham (Gen. 22:13), an animal sacrifice to 'redeem' the first born (Exod. 13:13-15, 34:20; Numb. 18-15). Nevertheless, in a desperate crisis, the first-born was sacrificed as the supreme gift to the deity... The immolation of Jephthah's daughter (Judg 11:30-40) is the result of a vow made to the deity to obtain victory. Prisoners of war were occasionally sacrificed either for blood revenge (Judge 8:18-21) or as part of the ban (1Sam 15:33). Both these barbaric ancient rites were regarded as sacrifices to the deity ...."
But I suppose as Judaism always officially stood against such practices it makes sense to leave things as Rhye has now set them.
Human sacrifice should also be enabled for Hinduism as they practiced it right through to the days of the British Raj, whilst it was very limited in nature a group called the Thuggies (from where we derive the word thug) who were devotees of Khali were known to kidnap and sacrifice travellers.