Talk:Scapegoat

There appears to be at least Two Eblaite Text from a period reaching back to the 24th-century BCmake reference to a ritual purification taking place at the king's wedding where the whole community is involved in driving out a she-goat into the "Alini" (wasteland) waring a silver neckless. This ritual was suggesting an "elimination rites" that removed any past objection to the King's bride.

There were also customs which may have resulted from mans primal nature of not accepting personal blame for things that have gone wrong. Adam blamed Eve and God for giving him Eve when God discovered he had eaten of the forbidden tree. Not accepting responsibility for our errors or sins is all too common a practice.

On Greece when there was a famine, drought, or plague the natural tendency of fallen man is to blame someone else. Leaders are often the first to be blamed. It actually became the custom to take some poor individuals into the king's house, treat them like royalty, showering them with gifts and the publicly driving them out or even sacrificing them to take the blame for the king.

Evidence of similar rituals in the Andys was suspected when archeologists discovered children whose diet was greatly improved for at least a year before their ritual sacrifice. They were found frozen in caves high in the mountains, dressed in fine garments and evidently drugged and some times bound just before they froze to death.

"When I look for myself I found a bundle of perception ." David Hume who believed that errors in philosophy are "only ridiculous”, but "the errors in religion are dangerous".

If the story of the Scapegoat is an allegory what is the message and who can hear it?