Posted on 08/28/2019 2:04:21 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed what is believed to be the largest single mass child sacrifice in history.
The bodies of 227 victims, aged between five and 14, were found near the coastal town of Huanchaco, north of Peru's capital Lima.
The children were believed to have been sacrificed over 500 years ago.
The discovery comes barely a year after 200 child victims of human sacrifice were found at two other sites in the country.
Archaeologists told AFP news agency that some of the bodies in this latest collection still had hair and skin when they were dug up.
The children show signs of being killed during wet weather, and were buried facing the sea, meaning they were probably sacrificed to appease the Chimú's gods.
It is unclear in which year the incident took place.
The Chimú resided along Peru's northern coast and were one of the region's most powerful civilisations. They reached prominence between 1200 and 1400 before being conquered by the Incas, who were in turn conquered by the Spanish.
They worshipped a moon god called Shi which, unlike the Incas, they believed was more powerful than the sun. Devotees regularly used sacrifice and other offerings during spiritual rituals.
Excavation work is continuing at the mass burial site, and archaeologists say more bodies may still be discovered.
"It's uncontrollable, this thing with the children," chief archaeologist Feren Castillo told AFP. "Wherever you dig, there's another one".
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So I guess kids nights there didn’t last too long. Was a good way to get them to behave.
Is it even bigger than Washington D.C’s????
So much for “the noble savage.” But don’t you dare use an image of them as your mascot!
This is human history.
It’s the fight between baby murderers and those who don’t.
It’s the story of the Old Testament.
It’s the story of today with how many countless abortions.
They killed 227 thinking they were worth something. We’ve killed 60 million thinking they were worth nothing.
People in glass houses and all that.
+1
” Who’s this ‘we’ sheit ?
‘We’ did no such damn thing, unless you are a Leftist/communist (of course same same).
Yeah we’re really civilized compared to them.
I bet they even ripped babies apart in the womb by the tens of millions...
Let’s not play semantics.
WE is the US.
You don’t thin there were people back then who were against the sacrifices?
I dont see any concern here about lumping them all together.
And they do it in the USA today and it’s taxpayer financed
Where are you living that doesn’t have abortion/infanticide??
Sacrificing their children to save the planet.
Sound familiar?
"Huge turnout for the anti-abortion March for Life in Lima"
"Galarreta told Peruvian media outlet RPP that, although he respected all opinions on the subject, he firmly believes that abortion will never become legal in Peru.
“Democratically, we will fight so that it never happens in this country,” he told RPP. “Peru is a bastion in the American region and a model even in Europe, because it has showed a strength, in that sense. And while some of us are here, we will fight so that it doesn’t happen.”
https://perureports.com/huge-turnout-for-the-anti-abortion-march-for-life-in-lima/7594/
Yes that was Peru then...but look at Peru now. :)
“Huge turnout for the anti-abortion March for Life in Lima”
(Abortion is illegal there. So this march was about keeping it that way!)
https://perureports.com/huge-turnout-for-the-anti-abortion-march-for-life-in-lima/7594/
Selling the body parts shows that we sacrifice the children to a different god, that's the only difference.
We're such a fine, enlightened, Christian nation that we've come full circle.
JMHo
Yes, but, of course, it is semantics.
You cannot include the tens of millions opposed to abortion in “We”.
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