Posted on 12/06/2010 1:07:46 PM PST by La Lydia
Sacrifice is an age-old ritual, but the inhabitants of 10th-century Peru brought sinister novelty to their rites by slaughtering children. In the Lambayeque valley on the north coast, the earliest definitive evidence of ritual child sacrifice uncovered....
"The scale and sheer complexity of the blood sacrifice of children appears to be something completely new," said Haagen Klaus of Utah Valley University in Orem...
To investigate the role of ritual sacrifice in the Middle Sicán period, researchers examined 81 skeletons at the site, probing their teeth and bones to determine who they were and why they'd been killed. ... 70 per cent of the identifiable victims were anaemic Muchik children, aged 2 to 15, who'd lived out their short lives on an inferior diet of maize and squash.
... each victim had been stabbed repeatedly in the neck or chest with a metal knife, and the chest cavities pried open...Klaus's team also discovered the seeds of Nectandra plants near the skeletons. Since these have paralytic and hallucinogenic properties, Klaus suggests the drug might have been given to the victims before the ritual killing began...
Klaus speculates that the rituals may have been driven by failure of the Moche warrior sacrifices to drive away bad weather brought by El Nino. If adults didn't work, why not try kids?...
But it's impossible to determine whether the people who killed the Cerro Cerrillos children were the same people who buried them, let alone why they were sacrificed. Klaus says that the site nevertheless provides an insight into ancient socioeconomic inequality...
Anthropologist John Verano of Tulane University, doesn't buy a direct relationship between El Nino and Moche sacrifice. "My excavations of a sequence of several hundred years of Moche sacrifices at the Huaca de la Luna found no association with catastrophic weather events."
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
human sacrifice ping
Ancient Planned Parenthood and very late term abortions.
I suppose if they mouth the words some idiot foundation or government agency will fund their research, though.
“Inequality”??? Someone had more beaver pelts than you, so you kill your kids??
Makes no sense
Agree. . .interesting; hope these same people label themselves as ‘Warmist’ so when their remains are found; there can such speculation as to their life and demise and their species as well.
Agree. . .interesting; hope these same people label themselves as ‘Warmist’ so when their remains are found; there can such speculation as to their life and demise and their species as well.
Yet provides not one single piece of evidence to back it up.
So they killed a few kids. Big deal.
We’ve been killing 4000 per day since the 60’s.
See how far we’ve come with our advanced technology.
Who gets the most abortions [child sacrifices] in this country?
The same group - “the socioeconomically oppressed”.
Ecc 1:9
What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
This looks downright civilized when compared to the extent of that American child sacrifice ritual called abortion. Imagine the dispatch when archeologists uncover abortuaries in the future.
Kansas City, January 22, 2520
In a surprise find, archeologists uncovering the ruins of ancient Kansas City discovered what appears to be a shrine of ritual child sacrifice. According to archeologists, at the time, the Americas were covered with primitive peoples who killed their own young. The remains of small children found at the site showed that they were skewered and apparently ripped from the womb piece by piece in a primitive pagan ritual in order to appease an angry deity sometimes refered to as “Convenience” in ancient manuscripts also found at the site. There is evidence also from chemical tests done at the site that the mothers were subject to sedatives before the barbaric ritual was performed. Speaking of the practices of the ancient civilization, one leading archeologists commented, “It’s hard to know what could lead a civilization to murder its own young in such a barbaric way, but ancient peoples like these were less informed and obviously morally inferior to modern peoples.
Watch “Apocalypto” to understand the barbary of the ancient South American race. It is still in their DNA!
Where’s the science?
Sacrifice and cannibalism were widespread among ¨new world¨ aborigines. Even the vaunted Iroquois would chow down on some of their brethren occasionally.
The Noble Red Man, eh?
You might well ask. The science did a pretty good job of analyzing their remains, their injuries and their burial setting. But the rest of it is just PC academic BS and speculation. They don’t know who killed the children, or why (there is absolutely no indication it had anything to do with El Nino). Child sacrifice is not unknown in these Andean cultures, and went on over centuries. A really good book on the subject is “The Ice Maiden.” They don’t know why the children were buried the way they were. They don’t know the “socioeconomic group” of the children, and there is no way they could, nor do they know if those children were malnourished in comparison with their peers, or if all the children in that society were malnourished at that time.
These ancient people were PATHETIC, AMATEUR PIKERS in child sacrifice compared to to Planned Parenthood today.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. - Sherlock Holmes
Those are Mayans, not Moche. :)
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