Chapter 11 THE SAC A

We are still trying to find an historical case of a man who is sacrificed in the character of a god and a king. The argument next introduces us to the Sac?a at Babylon, when the mock-king was hanged, the Persian feast, which, as we saw, M. Parmentier, following Herr Meissner, is inclined to identify with the ancient Babylonian Zagmuk, or Zakmuk, an