The Axial Age Ends Blood SacrificeThe same refusal appears at the same time in places that had never heard of Amos.Pythagoras forbids blood offering. The Buddha rejects it. The Jains build an entire ethic on refusing to kill anything. Centuries later Porphyry states the theory plainly — the gods who demand blood are lower demons feeding on the sacrifice, not the highest intelligence.Four traditions culminating in one conclusion that abandons a 15,000 year public human tradition of blood sacrifice.