Like all peoples of the earth, the Greeks offered sacrifices to their many gods. Some bloodless, consisting of libations of wine, oil, honey cakes or cremation figure of a crescent.
But the most common and most believed to please the gods, were the bloodiest in which animals were sacrificed. These should be perfect and without blemish or imperfection. A Jupiter is offering bulls and rams, Pallas Athena, cows that had not been yoke Poseidon, black bulls and horses, to Mercury, fawns, etc.
The quantity and quality of slaughtered animals was related to the greatness or importance of what was required. To gain victory in battle, the extermination of a pest, etc., Are sacrificed one hundred victims who were usually oxen. In Greek one hundred is said "ekatón" and ox "bous" ie "holocaust" , sacrifice a hundred oxen.
Thisword figuratively passed to mean a death of people executed in a battle, a disaster or major catastrophe.
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