In 1999, a group of foreign archaeologists, while on a mission in the Andes Mountains, accidentally found a 14-year-old girl who had been frozen for 500 years on a volcano at an altitude of more than 6700 meters, looking like she was asleep.
What is going on, where did this young girl come from, why was she buried alone on the mountain, and what was the hidden plot behind it?
The girl was wearing soft silk items, and when archaeologists found her, her skin was delicate and smooth, the joints were elastic, and even the pores on her body were clearly visible, only the wear and tear of her teeth, which was seriously abnormal.
In addition, there are many exquisite works of art around her, including exquisite ceramics and soft imitations, which have high artistic value.
What is even more surprising is that although these things have been in the mountains for 500 years, they still look as bright as ever, and nothing seems to have changed.
In order to find out the origin of the young girl, archaeologists carefully sent her body to the laboratory and examined her with scientific instruments.
Experts were surprised to find that the girl, who was supposed to be a 15th-century Inca, died only 14 years old.
Her body is intact and free of any trauma. The reason why it can be preserved for more than 500 years has a lot to do with the local environment.
The place where the girl is located, although it is an active volcano, when it does not erupt, it is also the same as ordinary mountain ranges, the higher the altitude, the lower the temperature and oxygen content, this extraordinary environment, the growth of microorganisms is very unfavorable.
Therefore, the remains of the young girl, not oxidized by the air, nor corroded by bacteria, have been relatively intact for more than 500 years, and there has been no serious decay.
So, why did this young girl go to the mountain of more than 6700 meters? For ordinary people, the age of 14 is a good time for innocence, but this young girl hastily left this world.
In order to restore the historical truth, the experts cut a strand of hair from the girl's head and conducted a more comprehensive analysis with scientific instruments. At the same time, experts have also conducted more in-depth research on the remains of young girls.
The results showed that in the three months before her death, the girl ate a lot of foods that were easy to preserve, such as corn and freeze-dried meat, her stomach, and some foods that were not fully digested. In ancient times, when the environment was relatively harsh, only people who traveled for a long time would often eat this kind of thing.
Therefore, experts believe that this five-hundred-year-old Inca maiden may have been the sacrifice of the and the Andes for burial.
The ancient Incas, wishful thinking, believed that volcanoes were the source of all things, the divine presence they had to admire. In order to pray for the blessing of the mountain gods, the Incas would select several children every year to sacrifice to the mountain gods.
The Incas considered it very honorable to offer sacrifices to mountain gods. Therefore, the children who are selected are generally the descendants of nobles of relatively high status.
When archaeologists analyzed the remains of the young girl, they found a detail. The girl's cheeks were slightly raised, and on the right shoulder, there was also a male-worn corset.
In previous studies, experts have long confirmed that the ancient Inca nobles would resist altitude sickness by chewing coca leaves. Because of the frequent chewing, the cheeks of the Inca nobles would have some slight bulges.
In addition, ordinary Inca maidens were not entitled to wear men's corsets, and only noble maidens of higher status could use such things on special occasions.
Therefore, experts believe that the girl who died hastily on the volcano was the daughter of an Inca tribal chief. Because she was chosen, she became a sacrifice to the mountain god.
Before arriving at the volcano, the Inca maiden, accompanied by the chief's father, had painstakingly come to the volcano after more than three months of trekking.
For ordinary Incas, it was quite an "honorable" thing to be the sacrifice of the mountain god, but for the chosen Inca maiden, it was a very painful disaster.
On the way to the volcano, the girl had been very frightened and her mental state had collapsed several times. Therefore, she always grinds her teeth unconsciously, causing a very serious wear and tear on her teeth.
If conditions permitted, the girl would have fled long ago. Unfortunately, she couldn't escape at all, because there was someone to take care of her. Among them, the most central character is her chief father.
After all kinds of difficulties and dangers, the young girl was "escorted" by the chief and others to the place where the mountain gods were sacrificed.
The Inca maidens, who could not resist, drank the corn wine prepared in advance according to the tribal tradition, numbed their nerves with alcohol, and alleviated the fear in their hearts.
Having said that, the instinctive fear of death quickly destroyed the only sanity the Inca maiden had, and she had an uncontrollable vomiting reaction.
Even so, the people around her still did not have the slightest sympathy, and coldly supervised her to continue the sacrifice. The Inca maiden then quietly entered the cemetery, and her father, the chieftain, took off his corset and put it on her shoulder to complete the sacrifice.
Eventually, the girl was left on the mountain, because the air was too thin, and she left in a state of unconsciousness.
What the girl was thinking before she died, no one knew. After an analysis of the remains by experts, only one thing can be proved. That is, before the girl died, there was no excessive struggle, and she should not have suffered too much pain. Having said that, the tragic experience of the Inca girls still stung the hearts of many people.
For modern man, the sacred sacrifice that the Incas have revered for many years is only a backward and ignorant absurd act. Those who are sent to the mountains for sacrifice are victims of this absurd idea.
They could have had an ordinary and happy life, but they did not have a good look at the world, and because of this sacrifice, they hurriedly ended their lives.
Fortunately, this cruel sacrifice has not been passed down. Because of the constant changes of the times, many old ideas have been falsified by everyone in a scientific way. Those ignorant ideas, because they are too absurd, are gradually eliminated by the times.
Today, people's ideological concepts have undergone earth-shaking changes compared with the ancients. Sacrifices such as the Inca maidens have basically disappeared from people's lives, and there are only some archaeological remains where there are similar phenomena.
Some scholars believe that the tragedy of the Inca girls is particularly sad, and we should take this as a warning, take the historical mistakes as a lesson, and avoid the same problems. Only by constantly developing science and technology can our thinking and cognition become clearer.
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