At the same time, it must have been frightening and instilled a certain climate of dread and terror.
.. the parents were supposed to behave as if they were glad to have given away their son or daughter."
https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-hi
"..such sacrifices may have been a highly stratified means to help exert social control over large areas of conquered territories."
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/hi
"They felt a need to appease the gods, so they arranged for the ritual sacrifice of children and llamas, the most valuable things in their society.
Though it seems barbaric and unforgivable to us thousands of years later, the Chimú were merely doing what they hoped would revive their nation and return balance to nature and life."
https://archaeology-world.com/what-m
https://youtu.be/6X7abRXA7vc
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