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And they lowered offerings into the surrounding waters as they sent up fervent prayers.A new discovery, published today in the journal Antiquity, offers fresh insights into the Inca belief system, which was likely tied not only to politics, pleas for fertility, and a goddess known as Mama Cochaâthe sea motherâbut also to blood-filled offerings that clouded the waters of one of the worldâs largest lakes.During an underwater survey of the lake, which straddles Bolivia and Peru, an international team of archaeologists recovered an offering box made of andesite, a local volcanic stone, that was lying on a reef some 18 feet below the surface of the lake. Delaere is the scientific director of the Université libre de Bruxelles' underwater archaeology projects at Lake Titicaca.Onboard a research vessel on Lake Titicaca, project director Christophe Delaere and other team members share their discovery with archaeologist Johan Reinhard.For starters, in their reverence for the lake, the Inca were probably influenced by traditions of the people who lived there before themâthe Tiwanaku, a pre-Hispanic civilization believed to have lived in present-day Bolivia, Peru, and Chile between about 200 B.C. and A.D. 1,000.âI suspect that there were a limited number of places that the Inca made offerings, and these were made for reasons that existed prior to their occupation,â National Geographic explorer Johan Reinhard, an archaeologist specializing in pre-Hispanic sacred landscapes, said in an email.
As said here by A. R. Williams