This is abt the Aztecs but it’s worth noting that info relating to human sacrifice in Incan society is lacking as fuck and based largely on circumstantial instances of mummies found on frozen mountaintops and shit. Talk to descendants of the Incans in Peru and they’ll tell you it’s western horseshit, but the narrative is more important than the truth or indigenous histories of their own peoples when it comes to colonizer anthropology
It’s less touted than Aztecs and Mayans, but it was definitely taught in Amerikab schools when I was younger and I’ve heard the claims semi-recently from people I know who should definitely know better. There are ofc also just uneducated westerners who lump them all together under the banner of indigeneity. I spoke to many indigenous people in Peru who were tired of having Westerners assume their ancestors practiced human sacrifice, is my experience w/ it.
This is abt the Aztecs but it’s worth noting that info relating to human sacrifice in Incan society is lacking as fuck and based largely on circumstantial instances of mummies found on frozen mountaintops and shit. Talk to descendants of the Incans in Peru and they’ll tell you it’s western horseshit, but the narrative is more important than the truth or indigenous histories of their own peoples when it comes to colonizer anthropology
I’ve never heard about Incas practicing human sacrifice. Aztecs - sure. Mayans maybe a couple of times, but not Incas.
It’s less touted than Aztecs and Mayans, but it was definitely taught in Amerikab schools when I was younger and I’ve heard the claims semi-recently from people I know who should definitely know better. There are ofc also just uneducated westerners who lump them all together under the banner of indigeneity. I spoke to many indigenous people in Peru who were tired of having Westerners assume their ancestors practiced human sacrifice, is my experience w/ it.