The Highest Altar - The History of Human Sacrifice - Patrick Tierney ghost stories Initiation Rites

Initiation Rites

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The Highest Altar - The History of Human Sacrifice - Patrick Tierney ghost stories Initiation RitesIn 1983 the author went to Peru to investigate the remains of the 500 year old mummy of an Inca boy said to be the victim of human sacrifice. Later he discovered that human sacrifice is still practised in remote areas in the Andes. This book attempts to illuminate the significance of human sacrifice in man's social and religious development. Anthropologists and archaeologists are only now beginning to recognise that the ritual power to kill stands at