https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75hM3mOGg70&feature;=kp Artist: Leo Rojas Album: Spirit of the Hawk Released: 2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condor Condor is the name for two species of New World vultures, each in a monotypic genus. They are the largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere. They are: The Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus) which inhabits the Andean mountains. The California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) currently restricted to western coastal mountains of the United States and Mexico. The Moche people of ancient Peru worshiped nature. They placed emphasis on animals and often depicted condors in their art. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moche_(culture) Both iconography and the finds of human skeletons in ritual contexts seem to indicate that human sacrifice played a significant part in Moche religious practices. These rites appear to have involved the elite as key actors in a spectacle of costumed participants, monumental settings and possibly the ritual consumption of blood. While some scholars, such as Christopher B. Donnan and Izumi Shimada, argue that the sacrificial victims were the losers of ritual battles among local elites, others, such as John Verano and Richard Sutter, suggest that the sacrificial victims were warriors captured in territorial battles between the Moche and other nearby societies. Excavations in plazas near Moche huacas have found groups of people sacrificed together and the skeletons of young men deliberately excarnated, perhaps for temple displays. The Moche may have also held and tortured the victims for several weeks before sacrificing them, with the intent of deliberately drawing blood. Verano believes that some parts of the victim may have been eaten as well in ritual cannibalism. The sacrifices may have been associated with rites of ancestral renewal and agricultural fertility. Moche iconography features a figure which scholars have nicknamed the "Decapitator" or Ai Apaec; it is frequently depicted as a spider, but sometimes as a winged creature or a sea monster: together all three features symbolize land, water and air. When the body is included, the figure is usually shown with one arm holding a knife and another holding a severed head by the hair; it has also been depicted as "a human figure with a tiger's mouth and snarling fangs". The "Decapitator" is thought to have figured prominently in the beliefs surrounding the practice of sacrifice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Analsexmoche.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola_Gay

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