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Their labour as plough animals and transport; their skins for leather and clothing; their flesh for food; and their entrails as food-offerings for the gods, having invented the fiction that the gods preferred the guts so that they didn't have to waste good food on the gods.

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as a sacrifice, greek θυσία (thisia). An offering to the gods.

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