A Goddess Status
A great procession passed through Tanta's home village while she and the emperor journeyed to the mountain where she would be sacrificed. She told her village, "You can finish with me now because I could not be more honored than by the feasts which they celebrated for me in Cuzco." Her sacrifice was a little different than that of the children of Llullaillaco...
Transformed Into a Goddess
Tanta was taken to an Andean mountain, put into a tomb, and then walled into the mountain alive. She was fed Chicha as well, in order to dull her senses. After death, she was given a Goddess status and presumably spoke to her people an "an oracle" from her grave...
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