Pranam,

Quote Originally Posted by Avyaydya View Post
I think this is unlikely as it describes parts and internals of the body.

Do you believe that the momentum, heart, kidneys are symbolic? And what about the "Darvi spoon of Udumbara wood"?

Personally I would expect instructions how to create such symbolic animal as it would likely be surrounded with rituals to prepare it.

May be they would cut up random parts inside the cake and symbolize it as internal organs?

Here is an interesting passage from Aitareya Brahmana,which connects various parts of the sacrificial cake with the animal parts http://books.google.co.in/books?id=b...0blood&f=false

And there IS a ritual myth associated with symbolical sacrifice,see Satapatha Brahmana verses 1.2.3.5 onwards