Both boys and girls were selected for the rituals, which were considered a great honor. The Capacocha sacrifice began in the ...

Very little is known about Capacocha, the sacred Inca ceremony of ... The earliest and only known written accounts of the ritual are chronicles written by Spanish conquistador historians.

When the Inca sacrificed children on mountain summits 500 years ago in the capacocha ritual, burial artefacts always accompanied the children in their journey to the `Other World.' Buried ...