substitute sacrifice

One of the main purposes for the Temple in Jerusalem was as the place for the substitute sacrifices.

A ram found caught in a nearby thicket is offered as a substitute sacrifice, and father and son descend the mountain and head back home.

Incidentally, the substitute sacrifice notion was nothing new; it arose from Gnostic teachings, especially those of Basilides of Alexandria.

A Judeo-Christian sequence of substitute sacrifices (scapegoat or scapelamb, later Eucharistic wafer) parallels Hinduism's transition from killing domestic animals to "killing"' vegetable rice cakes.

Edward Crangle, in his review, states that Upasana in Vedic text initially developed as a form of "substitute sacrifice", where symbolic meditation of the Aranyakas practice, instead of actual sacrifice ritual, offered a means to gain the same merit without the sacrifice.

According to Vacca, the incident took place in Turkey during the festival of Gurban Bayrami, the religious Muslim Festival of Sacrifice (Eid), which is commemorated annually to acknowledge God's mercy in providing Abraham with a ram as a substitute sacrifice for his son Ismayil.