A key ritual, practiced around 500 years ago, was known as capacocha and involved the sacrifice of children on mountain peaks. The Incas believed that children, typically aged between six and 13 ...
the sacred Inca ceremony of human sacrifice, but with each new archaeological discovery of a sacrificial mummy, more is revealed. The earliest and only known written accounts of the ritual are ...
The first frozen high mountain Inca human sacrifice was found atop a peak in ... It took incredible effort to hold sacrificial rituals in the thin air and life-threatening cold of the high Andes.
As in all societies, planting and harvesting are accompanied by rituals and offerings to the gods, and with the Inca this often involved sacrifice of living beings, from guinea pigs to the ...
The first Incas date to A.D. 1200 ... grave goods to accompany them into the afterlife. Some religious rituals involved human sacrifice, and coca played a role as well. Three mummies of ...
An Incan child from Chile’s Cerro El Plomo ritually sacrificed over 500 years ago and well preserved as a frozen mummy did ...
As in all societies, planting and harvesting are accompanied by rituals and offerings to the gods, and with the Inca this often involved sacrifice of living beings, from guinea pigs to the ...