The Cost
When scientists looked into the ice around Punta Arenas, Chile, they found some unusual things. These items served as Inca atonements. Children and other unfortunate souls were sacrificed to the Andes Mountains as part of the Inca ritual. Traditions like these were common in ancient societies. Their Gods were blood-hungry and that too of humans mostly.
The Incas believed that such sacrifices would bring them rain, better crops, and protection from outside threats. The highest of these peaks is around 15,000 feet. And, so far, in these deep mountains, they have found around 115 different burial sites. In 1954, for instance, they found the body of one young sacrifice they named “Juanita.”