Editing Machu Picchu (section)

====Human sacrifice and mysticism====
Little information exists surrounding human sacrifices at Machu Picchu, though it is known that many sacrifices were never given a proper burial, and their skeletal remains succumbed to the elements.<ref name="Gaither">{{cite journal|last=Gaither|first=Catherine|author2=Jonathan Kent|author3=Victor Sanchez|author4=Teresa Tham|date=June 2008|title=Mortuary Practices and Human Sacrifice in the Middle Chao Valley of Peru: Their Interpretation in the Context of Andean Mortuary Patterning|journal=Latin American Antiquity|volume=19|issue=2|pages=107, 115, 119|doi=10.1017/S1045663500007744|s2cid=162727279}}</ref> However, there is evidence that retainers were sacrificed to accompany a deceased noble in the afterlife.<ref name=Gaither/>{{rp|107, 119}} Animal, liquid and dirt sacrifices to the gods were more common and were made at the Altar of the Condor. The tradition is upheld by members of the [[Pachamama#New Age worship|New Age Andean religion]].<ref name=Hill>{{cite journal|last=Hill|first=Michael|title=Myth, Globalization, and Mestizaje in New Age Andean Religion: The Intic Churincuna (Children of the Sun) of Urubamba, Peru|journal=Ethnohistory|date=2010|volume=57|issue=2|pages=263, 273–2m75|doi=10.1215/00141801-2009-063}}</ref>{{rp|263}}