the high place of sacrifice

In the early days, around the second century, they do sacrifice humans here. It was reported that once a year a young boy's throat is slit here and his life bloond offered to the Nabataen god. Besides this there were regular animal sacrifices. Here were found raised altars and drainage for the flow of blood. It is a huge complex and I can imagine in its hey days, the gathering of priests and worshippers for each sacrificial ceremony whether of human or animals. Anyway the clim up here was exhausting. We could have gone down the same way but we didn't. Instead we chose to go down the back way.