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The speaker says the Inca very rarely took a drugged virgin to the high mountains for sacrifice, and that mummified bodies of these girls can still be found.

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“The Inca would very occasionally take a virgin sacrifice into the high mountains where she'd be drugged and you can still find the mummified corpses of these girls but that was very rare and very specific. There was no ingrained culture of mass human sacrifice at all.”
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