Great! PC sacrificing! Sounds good to me. There's a thought:

Could you sacrifice your virgin by offering her up - or rather, offering up her <i>lifetime</i> - to whatever god or goddess, then have her live a hermetical or similarly marked out existence . . . oh yeah, nuns. I forgot.

But on the whole, nuns have the choice. What if she was selected? Maybe she wouldn't live a hermetical life, maybe it would be more exalted, and deeply fuctional within the community. Would she become a seer, a medium between the worlds?

Or am I being amazingly obtuse and overlooking the sacrifice of the virginity bit? Doh!

However, surely you have to consider that life blood business. Surely the letting of human blood is the most symbolic act? What about the Aztecs and their bloody practices? Human sacrifice is suggested in the Bible - Genesis 22:2 <i>" Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."</i>

And would the spilling of human blood somehow equate (far back in time) with the menstrual cycle and birth as a result? And why are most sacrifical animals killed; surely this would not be necessary if you didn't have to kill to sacrifice?