'According to the Incas, a person struck by lightning received great honor—a god expressed interest in that person,' said bioarchaeologist Dagmara Socha.
Inca child sacrifice victims were purposefully placed in spots where they would stand a good chance of being struck by lightning, a bioarchaeologist has said.
The children, they said, had been placed on special sacrificial stone platforms in areas known to be exposed to lightning strikes, Science in Poland , a website run by the country's Ministry of Science and Higher Education, reports. The platforms are believed to have been repeatedly struck by lightning, which explains why some of the remains—including clothes and soft tissues—had not been preserved as well as other Incan sacrifice victims.
Child sacrifice in the Incan Empire was performed as part of the capacocha ritual. Children were chosen because they were thought to be the purest of society, therefore the best people to offer to the gods.suggests victims would be chosen many years in advance—hair samples from victims indicated they were"fattened up" in the years leading to their deaths.
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