February 06, 2004
Possible Human Sacrifice in Peru
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A decapitated baby boy found on a hilltop near Lake Titicaca may have been killed last week in a human sacrifice ritual, police said Wednesday. The remains of the infant, believed to have been 7 months old, were discovered Tuesday in the Yunguyo (search) area near the Bolivian border, a police officer in the regional capital of Puno told The Associated Press. Investigators believe the killing may have been a ritualistic sacrifice meant to appease a pre-Columbian earth god, because the body was found on the hilltop surrounded by flowers, liquor bottles and containers of blood. Highland Indians consider many Andean hilltops to be the homes of deities. Tradition says the first Inca rose from Lake Titicaca (search). Police were led to the remote rural site by villagers upset by the killing, which took place last week, police said.Posted by stupefied
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