article_snippet: the local Indians made bloody human sacrifices to the local Indians simian deity, then ate the victims in an act of ritualised cannibalism.
article_snippet: This, local guides claimed, had been ‘the place of sacrifice’.
article_snippet: As to what had been sacrificed, Morde and ethnologists Theodore Morde consulted were convinced the people had practised a barbaric tradition that was later adopted by the warlike Aztecs to the north in Mexico.
article_snippet: Priests would distribute his body among the worshippers who would each take a small piece home to eat.
article_snippet: Officiating was the local head medicine man or shaman — the Dama Suk-ya Tara.