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9/9/2007
9:28:06 am EDT
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Mummified Inca Maiden Wows Crowds
Author: BBC News Source: BBC News
Title: MUMMIFIED INCA MAIDEN WOWS CROWDS
A mummy of an Inca girl, described as "perfect" by the archaeologists who found her in 1999, has gone on display for the first time in Argentina.
Hundreds of people crowded into a museum in the north-western city of Salta to see "la Doncella", the Maiden.
The remains of the girl, who was 15 when she died, were found in an icy pit on top of a volcano in the Andes, along with a younger boy and girl.
Researchers believe they were sacrificed by the Incas 500 years ago.
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| Fate And Poetic Justice | Sep 10th. at 11:19:57 am EDT
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argilcath (Rapid City, Colorado) - Email Me
The best scholarship cannot tell us for certain what happened in this community, or the whole truth behind the fate of the children in this article. Nonetheless, that scholarship can tell us quite a bit, and very careful preservation of these mummies may well allow future scholars to tell even more.
We all benefit by learning more about those who came before us. If such knowledge causes us to think deeply about our own lives and what we are leaving to the future, then this child's terrible sacrifice has been turned into a blessing to generations far beyond the imaginings of her own.
It is true that some will 'gawk'; however, nothing is gained by 'protecting' everyone from the limits of such people. It is also true that others will honor her, and look across the centuries to see a fellow human being. How amazing! Those who hoped to profit from her death are long-gone. Their possessions, their rites, their titles, even their names have passed completely from human memory. But, in the most unexpected way, fate ensured that she would 'survive' them all.
-argilcath
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| Issues Of History & Respect | Sep 10th. at 10:04:06 am EDT
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Finn (San Marcos, Texas) - Email Me
The past is a vague, murky place. We respect it when we approach it in a scholarly manner, and attempt to puzzle out the truth of the matter. We must remain seekers. Much of Paganism, ancient in particular, is viewed through rosy-colored spectacles. I think research and exhibits like this are important in dispellign the rainbows and unicorns. Things like this sacrificed child put reality in focus, and helps us understand the depth of belief and the actions said people were willing to entertain.
I would find this disrespectful if the mummy were in a sideshow, being hauled out for the lurid jeers and cheap thrills of the crowd. It is not. The exhibit exists for the purpose of extending our knowledge of a culture, so that its lessons are not lost. I expect no less of our own corpses in latter days, should our civilization be lost. I can envision a day when or bizarre coffins are in museums complete with remains, while people puzzle over our own strange funeral customs.
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| Prehistory... | Sep 9th. at 12:44:35 pm EDT
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Rose Welsh (St. George, Utah) - Email Me
To me, it's not a morbid fascination with death to visit exhibits like this. (I wouldn't go to the Human Body exhibit unless I was paid quite a bit of money. Now that's disrespect. of the dead if you ask me) But to visit the Incan maiden, to me, would be a way to visit the people of the past, like a well preserved monument, but made of flesh. She was once a real person, with a life that was brutally taken. Visiting her would make me imagine what her life and death might have been like. In a way, I could get to know The Ancestors through her presence.
It's all in how the exhibit is treated by those who visit. If they come to gawk, it's disrespectful and their karma. If they come to visit the past and The Ancestors I don't see the disrespect there at all.
Rose
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