The sacrificed child was thought of as a deity, ensuring a tie between the chief and the Inca emperor, who was considered a descendant of the Sun god. The sacrifice also bestowed an elevated ...

Long before the Incas came to power in Peru and began to celebrate their sun god, a little-known civilization ... (David Edgar/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0) The ancient civilization that designed ...

This small gold model of a llama is a fitting offering for an Inca mountain god. The Incas revered gold as the sweat of the sun and believed that it represented the sun's regenerative powers.

connected with the worship of the sun god, Inti. Overlooking the ancient Inca capital, Cusco, Sacsayhuamán was used as a fortress during the Spanish invasion, surrounded by a zig-zagging wall of ...