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A lot of articles skirt around the more shocking material and I've never seen actual pictures of the more pornographic art but from what I can tell, they depict not only ritual slaughter and blood drinking but sex acts with skeletons which might explain why some of the remains they found were defleshed and modified so they could be articulated (like the skeltons in B horror movies that can dance around on the end of a string). A civilization ruled by Jeffrey Dahlmers comes to mind...

This, by the way, is where I look the cultural relativists in the eye and say, "No, I don't shed a tear that their culture was wiped out. It didn't happen soon enough."

[Betis70]

More detailed info here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1293942/posts

Yes I know a little about the Moche. They were a seriously sick group of people down there. My undergrad arch advisor worked in Peru fairly often, well whenever Sendero Luminoso wasn't threatening to kill everyone in sight.