toHoaxorfact: The girl pictured above
was one among the three frozen
children who were found from the
22,000-foot summit of a volcano in
Chilean border called Mount Llullaillaco,
in the year 1999. This 15 year old
frozen girl named La Doncella, "the
maiden," was being prepared by
Researchers at the Museum of High
Altitude Archaeology to display it to the
world. One of the museum's designer
and director Gabriel E. Miremont said,
"These are dead people, Indian people".
Children were sacrificed like this as a
part of a religious ritual called
capacocha, where beautiful and healthy
children including girls were chosen to
be frozen to death. They were made to
walk hundreds of miles amidst
ceremonies and then taken to the
summit of Llullaillaco, where they were
fed with chicha (maize beer), and once
they felt asleep, they were placed in
underground niches where they will
freeze to death. The cold, dry and thin
air underground preserved these
bodies for hundreds of years making
them look real. The Inca people
practiced child sacrifice and considered
it as an honor to be chosen for sacrifice,
because according to them, these
children did not die, but will have
joined their ancestors who shall later
watch over their villages from the
mountain tops like angels. SOURCE:
Hoaxorfact
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