There was an interesting ritual in ancient Armenia

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Tuesday, 29 May, 2018, 02:05
There was an interesting ritual in ancient Armenia. During a drought people opened a burial, take the skull of a human and threw it into the river as a sacrifice for the rain. Agarak, Aragatsotn.
Source: Archaeology of Armenia

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