Crossword-Solution: KHONDS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Among the Khonds a birth is celebrated on the seventh day after the event by a feast given to the priest and to the whole village.

But the best known case of human sacrifices, systematically offered to ensure good crops, is supplied by the Khonds or Kandhs, another Dravidian race in Bengal.

Khonds in distress often sold their children for victims, "considering the beatification of their souls certain, and their death, for the benefit of mankind, the most honourable possible." A man of the Panua tribe was once seen to load a Khond with curses, and finally to spit in his face, because the Khond had sold for a victim his own child, whom the Panua had wished to marry.

The story that the fragments of Osiris's body were scattered up and down the land, and buried by Isis on the spots where they lay, may very well be a reminiscence of a custom, like that observed by the Khonds, of dividing the human victim in pieces and burying the pieces, often at intervals of many miles from each other, in the fields.

Here the tears of the oxen, like those of the human victims amongst the Khonds and the Aztecs, are probably a rain-charm.