yesterday after I made that post about how they should put the mummies of the Capacocha victims back in the earth out of respect for their burials, my family and I BY CHANCE sat down and watched episode 7 of Widow's Bay where they unearth Richard Warren and he's still alive and he doesn't want to go back in his coffin. When they have to journey him out to ocean to sacrifice him to "break the curse", he goes willingly UNTIL he comes close to death and THEN he pleads to live and starts fighting them on the boat. cuz no one wants to die. girl. okay I hear you Tanta Carhua you are not going back in that lonely tomb any time soon if you can help it I get the message
and then I read this
where it says that "...some very young women accepted their destination with pleasure, but those who did not wish to die, were drugged and then sacrificed."
The Capacocha Wikipedia made it sound like the children were just ALL routinely made drunk before death to "make it more painless" .... NAAAAAHH it was more likely the case where once the kids climbed up the mountain and realized what was actually going on, they were probably like "LET ME OUTTTT AAAAAA HERE" and acted out, like Richard Warren trying to flee death . man
it just doesn't make sense to me to sacrifice a ten year old to a mountain to "protect your people" the more ways I try to look at it... if she's supposed to become a goddess who will protect your people, why would you want this new goddess to have the wisdom of a ten year old.... why would the mountain care that the sacrifice is a "physically perfect" CHILD, unless you as the sacrificer assume that the mountain finds the same value in youth that you do... literally are they assuming the MOUNTAIN is a ped0phile? The mountain does not care. I will research more before I blindly accuse the entire Incan Empire of being "the Peruvian Epstein" but that's what its lookin like . but people do crazy things under immense stress and maybe the mountain was quite scary who knows now
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"... this new data lets us investigate imperial Inca ceremonies from the perspective of the victims... and to assess the degree of congruence with the Spanish historical accounts that, after Pizarro's conquest of the Inca capital, Cuzco, in A.D. 1533, have provided the primary framework for our understanding of Inca religious practices. The data offer direct insight into the overall mechanism of Inca ritual killing in extreme environments and its significance as a mechanism for social control.
The high peaks of the Andes were sacred to the Inca, associated or even identified with their major deities, such as the weather god, Illapa. Some of the chosen locations are both high enough to attract regular lightning strikes (Lightning Girl is so named because her corpse has sustained a direct hit) and some are active volcanoes, from which smoke, noise, and fire could be at times observed, phenomena easily interpretable within superstitious or religious frameworks. Human sacrifice at significant peaks reinforced reverence for locally sacred mountains and helped legitimize the expanding empire as its population rose to ≈10 million. The construction of the shrines and the conducting of rites above 5,000 m required considerable logistical support and can safely be assumed to have been under central imperial control. In one case, the Spanish chronicler, Hernández de Príncipe reports the final mountain-top words of a 10-year-old Incan girl victim, Tanta Carhua, as “finish with me now, because the celebrations they held for me in Cuzco were enough”. It seems likely that all such children had to be present in the capital at some stage in a ritual process that could have extended over a significant period."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative
