The Greeks sacrificed when they needed help from the gods. Sacrifice was like praying to the Greeks. The bigger thing that they were praying to meant that they would sacrifice a bigger animal, and that also meant that more people would participate in the sacrifice. First they would clean and dress the animal in ribbons. Then the Greeks put water and barley seeds on the animal. To make sure that everyone was helping in the sacrifice everyone would throw barley seeds. The reason that they would pour water on the animals head was to make it say yes by "nodding" (The water would make the animal put it’s head down.). Then the person doing the sacrifice would pull out a knife and kill the animal. They would take certain parts of the animal out for the gods. The Greeks cooked everything and ate the parts not for the gods.
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