7′ Giant with spear, Temple of Chinigchinich

Sacrificial Deaths Indicated In Indian Children’s Grave

Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California (AP) – An attempt to follow ancient trails to the long-lost island temple of Chinigchinich, the Sun God, has resulted instead in the discovery of the burial place of a small Indian princess of 3,000 years ago and evidence indicating that child sacrifices were made in wholesale fashion by tribes of the Channel Islands, off the coast of California.

Within a stone urn weighing 134 pounds and fashioned as skillfully as though by modern tools instead of primitive implements was found the skeleton of an Indian girl between five and seven years. Her hands apparently had clutched the rim of the urn, whose rich ornamentation of wampum bespeaks her royal lineage.

In a circle with the urn as a center were counted by Prof. Ralph Glidden, curator of the Catalina Museum of Channel Island Indians, the skeletons of 64 children buried in tiers four deep with small heads touching each other.

Beneath them was the skeleton of a seven-foot man. A spear blade still was fixed in the ribs.

Cal. – (AP) – An attempt to follow ancient trails to the long lost island temple of Chinigchinich, the Sun God. – – – Incomplete!!!

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