Organs are very rich sources of life nutrients. Raw liver every day can heal. Of course, a warrior eating the heart of it’s “enemy” IS ABOUT power. The heart is the memory. So, one destroys not only the embodiment, but all memory of it.
ORgans: source of highly concentrated and core life ingredients. We grew up eating chicken and turkey and beef livers. Nothing unusual. And when one teaches killing to drink and eat flesh and blood, one chances a blurred line between mammalians, to say the least.
The "unimaginable " is very much intrinsically embedded in our “fairy tales/folk tales” such as those employed widely by disney: those of the Brothers Grimm. A short study of social history will show that men have sold their daughters for very long. The place where fourteen year old austrian Marie Antoinette was handed over to the french royalty was named/called :The Hall of Surrender. So, there’s a war going on there, evidently. All political , aka power.
“God said ‘Abraham , kill me a son’. " 'And god sent his only begotten son to die”…yada yada yada.
Clytemnestra’s daughter Iphegenia was murdered/“sacrificed”…sacred murder? …to fill his war sails with wind. He had her sent to him on the ruse of having “found” her an illustrious husbander.