Capacocha or Qhapaq hucha (Quechua: qhapaq noble, solemn, principal, mighty, royal, hucha crime, sin, guilt Hispanicized spellings Capac cocha, Capaccocha...

The Aconcagua mummy is an Incan capacocha mummy of a seven-year-old boy, dated to around the year 1500. The mummy is well-preserved, due to the extreme...

strangulation and suffocation (burying alive). The ritual sacrifice called Capacocha (or Qhapaq hucha) was a key component to the Inca Empire. This ritual...

Plomo Mummy was the first notable frozen mummy discovery of high-altitude Capacocha human sacrifice by the Incas, a practice called qhapaq hucha. The original...

death of the Sapa Inca or during a famine. These sacrifices were known as capacocha or qhapaq hucha. The Incas were polytheists who worshipped many gods....

"The Maiden", one of the children of Llullaillaco mummies for the Inca ritual Capacocha—a preserved human sacrifice in pre-Columbian cultures c. 1500....

A few were destined to be sacrificed in a religious ceremony called capacocha. Several archaeological contexts for aclla have been identified, specifically...

emperor Atahualpa by conquering Spaniards. Child sacrifice, referred to as capacocha or qhapaq hucha, was an important part of the Inca religion and was often...

aplicado a tumbas incaicas. Distribución de objetos y cuerpos humanos en la "capacocha" del volcán Llullaillaco, Argentina". Revista Española de Antropología...

Botanique, vo. 1 Paris 1808. Mignone, Pablo (2010). "Ritualidad estatal, capacocha y actores sociales locales: El Cementerio del volcán Llullaillaco". Estudios...

a threat and during the 1440–1470 eruption offered human sacrifices (capacocha) on its summit and that of its neighbours to calm the volcano down; the...

" The Inca took part in spiritual human sacrifices known as the Capacocha. Capacocha ceremonies occurred as methods of demarcating boundaries at the periphery...

these places acted as portal to the gods. Ritual child sacrifices called Capacochas were conducted annually, where the most precious gift that could be given...

presumably used for equinox and solstice feasts. Notably, no human sacrifices (capacocha) are associated with Licancabur. Another site, Tambo de Licancabur or...

administrative centers of the empire. This strategy was working through the Capacocha ceremonies (rites that might involve also the sacrifice of children) which...

example, children from all over the Inca Empire were selected for the capacocha (sacrificial rite marking important events). Sacrificed children, according...

Compositional Analysis of Pottery Vessels Associated with the Inca Ritual of Capacocha (co-authored with Tamara Bray, Minc, L., Ceruti, C., Perea, R. & Chávez...

Such sacrifices with children being the usual subjects are known as capacocha and the discoveries of their mummies on mountains in the Andes has gained...

as e.g. walls. Nevertheless, evidence of Inka human sacrifice known as capacocha was found during archeological expeditions; a finding from 1896 is the...

ISSN 0035-7529. S2CID 129748000. Aráoz, Claudio Javier Patané (2015). "Una capacocha inca en Salinas Grandes (La Poma, Salta). El tupu y el plato del "Niño...

(replica pictured) illustrates the most solemn Incan child sacrifice ritual Capacocha, performed during hard times or at special moments of the year. The child...

to better understand the ceremonial and political implications of the capacocha ritual.: 27  The children were in good health before their deaths, and...

volcano may have been a stopover for religious ceremonies to its summit. Capacocha, a form of human sacrifice, were offered to the mountain; reportedly,...

The Inca built a path on to the mountain and offered human sacrifices, capacochas, on Pichu Pichu. Three mummies, two girls and one boy, were discovered...