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Hercules was the hero who performed twelve remarkable labors.
They established temples and ran religious festivals at which they performed plays, ran athletic contests and feasted in the gods' honour. The Greeks were very canny - they made up the story that the gods preferred the entrails of a sacrificed animal, so they burnt the offal on the altar for the gods and then themselves feasted on the meat.
The Aztecs sacrificed slave and volunteers to please their gods
Hercules did. He was not a god, though, but the son of Zeus.
Human sacrifices