This was the
name given to the
sacred sun virgins among the
Incas. In times of
dire emergencies they willingly sacrificed their lives to appease the
gods. In the scope of the
religion the woman had extreme importance, is observed so much in the land of the pantheon Inca, like in the land of the
religious institutions, pillars both of the spiritual world. Between the Gods, she
honored by his veneration the goddess Pachamama, Earth
goddess, was the procreator of the first men, plants and animals, for that reason she was very venerated in the domestic scope. The more important religious institution was the
Virgins of the Sun as the
conquerors called. This privileged group the one of the selected women or Aclla, whose organization and way of life as much called the attention of the conquerors, generates discussions on the
exactitude of this institution. Most of the
historians accept that these women were selected or chosen from the
puberty, between the daughters of the town and next to those of the
nobility and that they were educated and prepared to fulfill important missions.
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Incan Mythology.