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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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Divine Emperor
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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Pizarro's capture of Atahualpa worked psychologically because the Inca emperor was divine and untouchable, making his seizure almost unimaginable within the local worldview.
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"One thing that made the Incas different from the Aztecs is they practiced a form of ancestral worship, a pretty extreme form of ancestral..."
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"...Huapá had just fought a civil war, and now he's the divine emperor. And the legend is that Pizarro fought a battle with Ata..."
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"And the Spanish basically captured him, okay? Remember, in this society, the emperor is divine. He's untouchable. So it is beyond his imagination. So..."
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