Researchers Make A Path-breaking Discovery On Mount Llullaillaco

By Neil Pollin

Part Of Ceremony

Momia Juanita, the Ice Maiden

According to a popular theory, these children became subject of sacrificial death for a rite called “capacocha.” This type of ceremony was practiced very rarely by Incans in those days and so someone very important was made the subject of it. This must have come as an honor for the Maiden.