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Mass child sacrifice discovery may be largest in Peru
BBC ^ | 28 Aug 2019

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: abortion; allculturesequal; archaeology; chat; christophercolumbus; columbus; diversity; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; incans; molech; moloch; peru; southamerica
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To: dp0622

Yes, but, of course, it is semantics.

You cannot include the tens of millions opposed to abortion in “We”.


21 posted on 08/28/2019 3:03:03 PM PDT by A strike (Import third world become third world)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The more is learned (or made public) about the native American cultures, especially the southern ones, the better the Spaniards look.


22 posted on 08/28/2019 3:05:44 PM PDT by little jeremiah (9YrLurker: Trump is compromised and compromised with the Deep State, and so is Barr.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The Canaanites/Phoenicians were big on child sacrifice too, but I don’t know if any one site has been found with more than 227 victims.


23 posted on 08/28/2019 3:06:25 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: A strike

Plus, the human sacrifices in the native cultures were religious [sic]. It would be interesting if there is any info anywhere about how much of the acceptance of these horrible “religions” was solely due to fear.


24 posted on 08/28/2019 3:07:27 PM PDT by little jeremiah (9YrLurker: Trump is compromised and compromised with the Deep State, and so is Barr.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

President pickles would have nuked Peru just for that.


25 posted on 08/28/2019 3:14:18 PM PDT by wally_bert (Hola. Me llamo Inspector Carlton Lassiter. Me gusta queso.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

And we are headed back to that with abortion cum infanticide.


26 posted on 08/28/2019 3:14:41 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Still can’t beat the 55 million children of the womb butchered by abortion in the United States.


27 posted on 08/28/2019 3:14:50 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The Chimú resided along Peru’s northern coast and were one of the region’s most powerful civilisations.

I don’t think I would refer to them as powerful or a civilization


28 posted on 08/28/2019 3:26:20 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: Varda; Sopater

Actually, that is not entirely correct - about either group.

The original concept of sacrifice means: to give up something of lesser value for something of greater value.

The ancients sacrificed chldren, considered of lesser value, for blessings from their gods, considered of greater value. (If they valued children so very highly, then they would not have sacrificed them!)

Today’s common woman who obtains an abortion in America would not say that the preborn fetus is of absolutely no value, but that something else, her career, the environment, some other leftist ideal, was of greater value.

It is the Marxist propagandists who seek to portray the fetus as of no value, precisely because they know that the common woman - or man - instinctively knows it is of value. They are forced to protest too much, because most people instinctively know that the preborn child is of value - even if the value ascribed to it falls short of its full, unalienable value.

Your comment sounds pithy, but it falls short of the truth.


29 posted on 08/28/2019 3:28:17 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Didn’t think that the Incas also practiced child sacrifice. The false demon gods they worshipped must be really happy with the way the United States worships in the same way.

Crossing the red line of child sacrifice in the eyes of the One True God on the national level is not forgiven.


30 posted on 08/28/2019 3:30:12 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: YogicCowboy
You're trying too hard. The ancients sacrificed children because they thought they held enough value to influence a god.
American women abort children because of a job or the environment? These women aren't trying to buy or influence anything. They're trying to go back to the time the baby’ didn't EXIST.
31 posted on 08/28/2019 4:00:49 PM PDT by Varda
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I guess worse than Comet Pizza or what Epstein and others did to American kids, but not that much worse...


32 posted on 08/28/2019 4:07:32 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: Carl Vehse

“Still can’t beat the 55 million children of the womb butchered by abortion in the United States.”

The “United States” didn’t butcher any of them. 5 Left-Wing judges did.

(yea, I know, both parties are basically the same, so we sit out the 2020 election)


33 posted on 08/28/2019 4:10:58 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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The left with their abortions beat that every hour.


34 posted on 08/28/2019 4:28:05 PM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: lgjhn23

Big deal, we sacrifice our own kids....that many per state, weekly.

We’re more powerful than the sun!!!


35 posted on 08/28/2019 4:36:06 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Prehistoric Planned Homicide office...


36 posted on 08/28/2019 4:38:56 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Mass sacrifice in Peru probably doesn’t hold a candle to the mass murder of God’s babies in America.


37 posted on 08/28/2019 4:54:53 PM PDT by Maudeen (The surest fact in all the world is not death but the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.)
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To: Varda

I’ve read that some of the children killed for sacrifices were treated as totality. Usually the child’s family were getting riches...


38 posted on 08/28/2019 5:02:56 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: ifinnegan

Amen.


39 posted on 08/28/2019 5:09:18 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Pray/Penance. Isa 5:18-21,10:1-3 "Tempus faciendi, Domine, dissipaverunt legem tuam")
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

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They didn’t need to dig!

The two massive “Huacas” in Lima were acknowledged to have been all about child sacrifice.
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40 posted on 08/28/2019 5:13:31 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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