Socinianism also rejected the propitiatory view of atonement. This is because it is considered the propitiatory sacrifice of Christ himself. Whether the religion of Carthage included propitiatory child sacrifice has been subject of scholarly debate. The rite is both symbolic and propitiatory. They portray dancing figures performing a propitiatory rite, perhaps shamans. There are magical rituals, be they offensive/defensive or propitiatory in nature. A propitiatory prayer ends the work. The propitiatory names for the algorithms do not always clearly describe the actual decompression model. Publishing it (unlike the Palin Report of the previous year) was considered a propitiatory measure. The dance was propitiatory, never secular, and performed only by males.