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Inca Children Got High Before Death
#18639876 - 07/31/13 03:32 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Inca Children Got High Before Death
Evidence from mummified remains of three children discovered atop an Argentinian volcano suggests they were drunk and stoned for a year leading up to their ritual sacrifice. By Chris Palmer | July 29, 2013
Three Inca children found mummified in a shrine near the peak of a 6,700-meter Argentinian volcano consumed vast quantities of corn alcohol and coca, the plant from which cocaine is derived, for a year before they were sacrificed as part of their society’s religious practices. The children, a 13-year-old girl known as the “Ice Maiden” and a boy and a girl between the ages of 4 and 5, were likely sedated to keep them compliant in the death ritual, according to the authors of an analysis of the mummies published Monday (July 29) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The 500-year-old mummies are among the most well-preserved samples ever discovered, mostly due to the frigid conditions of the high altitude tomb in which they were found in 1999. (See "Pneu-mummy-a" from the November 2012 issue of The Scientist for a story of previous research done on the remains.) Detailed biochemical analysis of the mummies’ hair provided a record of what substances were circulating in the blood as new hair cells formed. Led by forensic archaeologist Andrew Wilson of the University of Bradford in the U.K., researchers discovered that the children ingested alcohol and cocaine for about a year before their death, and that consumption spiked dramatically in the weeks before they were killed.
Wilson and colleagues suspect the children were marched from the Inca capital of Cuzco to the volcano, Llullaillaco, stopping along the way to consume massive amounts of alcohol and coca in village ceremonies. The Ice Maiden, whose body was discovered cross-legged and slumped slightly forward as if she was sleeping at the time of her death, was also found with a large wad of chewed coca leaves in her mouth.
A previous analysis by Wilson’s group revealed a marked improvement in the nutritional content of the children’s diet in the year before their death, indicating they were well cared for in preparation for the sacrifice ceremony. Also, in the current study, scans of the Ice Maiden’s body suggested she died on a full stomach and had not recently defecated. “To my mind, that suggests she was not in a state of distress at the point at which she died,” Wilson told LiveScience.
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out7ider
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ages 4 and 5...thats pretty depressing
guess its a better way to go then dying sober
if i were in that situation id try to overdose on something
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Re: Inca Children Got High Before Death [Re: out7ider]
#18640034 - 07/31/13 04:00 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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"got high before death" isn't really synonymous with "were drugged & sacrificed"...
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Re: Inca Children Got High Before Death [Re: leon trout]
#18640083 - 07/31/13 04:08 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
leon trout said: "got high before death" isn't really synonymous with "were drugged & sacrificed"...
Yeah that is a really shitty title for this article. Sort of interesting... Mostly disturbing
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Eventhough it's thought of as a cruel act to sacrifice children the last paragraph does show how the Incas tried their best to improve the quality of life of those to be sacrificed to the best they could possibly offer. It could may be possible that not under the commands of one of the many crazy religions out there in the world that these people may have been thought of as being less like barbarians... or who knows, maybe their religion dictated how the Inca's sacrifice should be treated before death
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I think I should write a short story about this from the childrens POV. Whatchall think about this, would it make a good story?
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add some hardcore nudity, gratuitous violence and dragons, i'll see you at the book signing
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Re: Inca Children Got High Before Death [Re: out7ider]
#18640434 - 07/31/13 05:26 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Lol I can do that if they took any psyches ill make them hallucinated dragons,i ogotta look into the story a little seems like theres a little back story but most is just speculation due to the age of the incident
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Re: Inca Children Got High Before Death [Re: out7ider]
#18640773 - 07/31/13 06:33 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Cocaine and alcohol baby.
Sounds like a white trash weekend.
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too bad it wasnt... Iron Maiden.
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Re: Inca Children Got High Before Death [Re: Poor Boy]
#18641081 - 07/31/13 07:35 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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poor kids
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Re: Inca Children Got High Before Death [Re: allseeingike]
#18641173 - 07/31/13 07:47 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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im sure they had a blast...
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#18641429 - 07/31/13 08:50 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Re: Inca Children Got High Before Death [Re: Blanc]
#18641703 - 07/31/13 09:55 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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The coca thing doesn't surprise me. People chewed coca leaves the same way people nowadays drink Coca Cola. I'm sure many kids chewed on the leaves and nobody thought anything of it. I don't think that's the same as the kids being up there doing lines.
The alcohol is a bit more questionable in my mind.
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Re: Inca Children Got High Before Death [Re: Magick]
#18643919 - 08/01/13 01:27 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Almost a shame the new world doesn't / didn't have any native opioid-containing plants.
That we know of, at least....
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