During the first round voting in the Feb GDS, I voted primarily based on two considerations, in addition to my general impression of the rules:
1) Did the entry meet the requirements?
2) Did the theme interest me?

For this particular entry, I read down to the bit about human sacrifices and then discarded it on the basis of theme. You could easily substitute wine, gold, or plushies in place of humans, in order to avoid the risk of alienating some of your potential audience. I felt it was also on the borderline for the competition requirement of a game "composed primarily of dice", in that this game seemed to be primarily an auction game using cards, with the dice simply used as a substitute for money.

I have re-read the game today and offer the following critiques.

Good
- I like auction games, and this was perhaps the only auction game amongst the 38 entries, so it scores points in my books for originality.
- I like the scoring system which gives points in each Era, and then bonus points at the end. If these are balanced correctly, it presents a valid choice between short term gains or long term gains, which is a good mechanism (as long as the short term gains don't lead directly on to long term gains, in which case the choice is moot).

Suggestions for improvement
- I was left feeling confused about exactly how the auction worked. The effect of Wrath cards indicates that an auction lot can have multiple cards, but my understanding of the auction rules (as written) was that everybody bids once and the winner takes the lot. So there could never be more than 1 card in the auction lot. (Obviously I'm misreading something, because otherwise the Wrath cards could never destroy anything.)
- I was also not sure how the payment works. My understanding is that the winner puts his "payment" into the middle and takes the die from the middle, while none of the other players who bid are affected. This indicates that the winner of the auction did not lose any dice, he just substituted one. So let's say there is a 4 die in the middle, and one player also has a 4 die. He bids 4 (and wins), substituting his 4 for the 4 in the middle. Net result is that he gains points for no cost, and can do the same thing again next round. (Again, I think I'm misreading something, because I don't think this is how it was intended to play.)
- Rolling the dice to determine your starting resources in an auction game is inherently unbalanced, and I think it removes much of the skill of an auction game. If I rolled several 4 dice I'm probably going to win lots of auctions this era without any skill at all. I wonder whether you could counter this by allowing a third option on the player's turn, namely "gather offerings" which lets him roll an extra die (or perhaps reroll an existing die).
- With regards to the theme feeling "pasted on", I think perhaps this is reflected in the resources that the players have, namely money. It seems like this game is representing the high priest collecting a bunch of money from his faithful flock, and then goes down to the local market to buy up a bunch of animals, grain, etc. If the theme is to feel more integral, I think it needs to represent "presenting" the offerings to the Unnamed God, rather than "buying" them from the market. But that may involve a complete reversal of the game (and would in fact be a completely new game), for example:
* The dice faces represent different types of offerings, plus Wrath and Sundial
* The players have a hand of Offering cards with offering type and value
* On your turn you may petition the Unnamed God to find out what type of offering it wants (roll 1 die and add it to the middle)
* Make a secret bid by placing an Offering card face down
* If there are 2 Wraths in the middle all offerings are burned up; no points for anyone.
* If there are 2 Sundials in the middle the auction is over and the player who has offered the most things the Unnamed God wants is rewarded; the player with the least is punished; all the others get nothing; reshuffle all the played Offering cards and deal them out evenly.
* Players keep their unplayed Offering cards for the next round.
(As I said, this would be an entirely different game, and it's probably quite broken because it's just off the top of my head. But it's an example of how the "presenting offerings" mechanic could be made more integral to the theme.)

Well done on your entry in the competition. I wish you all the best.

Regards,
kos