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Capacocha or
Qhapaq hucha (Quechua:
qhapaq noble, solemn, prin****l, mighty, royal,
hucha crime, sin,
guilt Hispanicized spellings Capac cocha, Capaccocha...
- The
Aconcagua mummy is an
Incan capacocha mummy of a seven-year-old boy,
dated to
around the year 1500. The
mummy is well-preserved, due to the extreme...
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strangulation and
suffocation (burying alive). The
ritual sacrifice called Capacocha (or
Qhapaq hucha) was a key
component to the Inca Empire. This ritual...
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death of the Sapa Inca or
during a famine.
These sacrifices were
known as
capacocha or
qhapaq hucha. The
Incas were
polytheists who
worshipped many gods....
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Plomo Mummy was the
first notable frozen mummy discovery of high-altitude
Capacocha human sacrifice by the Incas, a
practice called qhapaq hucha. The original...
- "The Maiden", one of the
children of
Llullaillaco mummies for the Inca
ritual Capacocha—a
preserved human sacrifice in pre-Columbian
cultures c. 1500....
- Salta, Argentina,
which conserves and
exhibits collections related to the
Capacocha child sacrifice ceremonies performed by the Inca in the high
peaks of...
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emperor Atahualpa by
conquering Spaniards.
Child sacrifice,
referred to as
capacocha or
qhapaq hucha, was an
important part of the Inca
religion and was often...
- A few were
destined to be
sacrificed in a
religious ceremony called capacocha.
Several archaeological contexts for
aclla have been identified, specifically...
- Botanique, vo. 1
Paris 1808. Mignone,
Pablo (2010). "Ritualidad estatal,
capacocha y
actores sociales locales: El
Cementerio del volcán Llullaillaco". Estudios...
