A key ritual, practiced around 500 years ago, was known as capacocha and involved the sacrifice of children on mountain peaks. The Incas believed that children, typically aged between six and 13 ...
Carhua was a ten-year old Inca child whose father offered her to the Inca Emperor as a Capacocha sacrifice. She was taken by priests to Cuzco where she met the Inca Emperor, and on her return ...