Around 10,000 years ago, when civilization began to take shape, human understanding of nature and its inner workings was still vague. All that could not be explained fell on the shoulders of religious beliefs and deities. Amid this era, a large secluded tribe in South America, which would eventually evolve into the Incas, began a form of human sacrifice to worship their Gods.
The process had its roots when one of their children who fell and impaled her chest on a crystal not only survived but gained divine powers. Thinking that the child became a vessel for Gods to take physical form, each year, one to three babies would be impaled with the same kind of crystal so either a God could take his or her body as a vessel. If the baby dies, then the sacrifice would be deemed instead a necessary
