Miniature llama figurine, wrought in hammered gold, probably deposited as an offering to the mountain gods, accompanying a human sacrifice

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Miniature llama figurine, wrought in hammered gold, probably deposited as an offering to the mountain gods, accompanying a human sacrifice

Year: 1500-1532

From: Peru

Location: The British Museum, London

External link: www.britishmuseum.org

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Human SacrificeInca EmpireNative AmericansPeru

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Edited by: Chiara Petrolini

Religious practices of the native Americans of Peru. Priests sacrifice animals on a bonfire, throw rocks with serpents or snakes and animals painted on them, and eviscerate animals. (1671)

from: Arnoldus Montanus, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1671, p. 309

John Carter Brown Library

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice FireNative AmericansPeru

Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe

People of Qulla Suyu ofering a llama and basket of coca leaves to the mountain-waqa Willka Nuta (1615)

from: Guamán Poma de Ayala, F. Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [1616]. Manuscript conserved in the København, Det Kongelige Bibliotek [ Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark ], GKS 2232 4°.

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Inca EmpireNative AmericansPeru

Besom, T.

Of Summits and Sacrifice: An Ethnohistoric Study of Inka Religious Practices

Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Inca EmpireNative AmericansPeru

Vega, Garcilaso de la (1539-1616); Baudoin, Jean (1590-1650) (Eds.)

Le Commentaire Royal, Ov L'Histoire Des Yncas, Roys Dv Perv : Contenant leur origine, depuis le premier Ynca Manco Capac, leur Establissement, leur Idolatrie, leurs Sacrifices ... ; Ensemble vne description particuliere des Animaux, des Fruicts, des Mineraux, des Plantes, & des singularitez du Païs [chap. 11: Des sacrifices qu'ils souloient faire]

Paris: Courbe, 1633.

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AmericasAnimal Sacrifice Human SacrificeInca EmpirePeru

Guamán Poma de Ayala, F.; Hamilton, R. (Ed.)

The First New Chronicle and Good Government: On the History of the World and the Incas up to 1615

Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Native AmericansPeru

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