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by webnrrd2k 1109 days ago
Maybe it started by people sacrificing what they considered most valuable to them -- their children.

Or maybe it started in a time of famine or other stress, where the young children were likely to die anyways. The reasoning of it seem to be 1.) Sacrifice your child and maybe make a god bring rain or otherwise change the situation. Or 2.) Do nothing and the kid dies anyway, and the famine (or whatever) continues.