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Inca practice where a dead emperor remains ritually alive through mummification, keeping wealth and land and forcing new conquest.
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ancestral worship
Inca practice where a dead emperor remains ritually alive through mummification, keeping wealth and land and forcing new conquest.
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Inca ancestral worship made dead emperors legally and ritually still alive, keeping their lands and wealth and forcing new emperors to conquer fresh territory.
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"...Incas different from the Aztecs is they practiced a form of ancestral worship, a pretty extreme form of ancestral worship. So the idea is..."
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"...vulture with headless people. Okay? Because the way that they combine ancestral worship with their belief in the mother goddess is they believe that..."
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