Víctor Hugo Mica Alvarez says he was buried alive.
https://sofadasala-noticias.blogspot.com/2024/10/pachamama-e-um-demonio-exposed.html
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AUGUST 6, 2022. During the "Mother Earth" Festival in El Alto, Bolivia's second largest city, Víctor Hugo Mica Alvarez fainted. He was drunk and woke up inside a coffin. Buried.
The 30-year-old joined the crowd celebrating nature and the natural world while praising Pachamama, the supposed "goddess" of the earth and fertility.
During this festival, participants offer sacrifices, known as "sullu" in order to please the "entity" and Victor, being vulnerable due to drunkenness, was chosen as one of the offerings that year.
He believes that locals, devotees of Pachamama, buried him alive as a gift to the "goddess." Traumatized, Victor told local media:
"Last night was the pre-entry [of the festival], we went dancing. And after this, I don't remember. The only thing I remember is that I thought I was in bed, I wanted to get up to urinate and I couldn't move.
"When I pushed the coffin, I managed to break a glass that it had and that's how I managed to get out. As soon as I broke the glass, dirt started to get in. They wanted to use me as a sullu."
Despite the mud and cement pouring down on him, the man managed to climb out of the hole.
He reported his drama to the police but the officers, Victor said, refused to believe him because he was “too drunk.”
He answered ofended: “We went dancing… and I don’t remember anymore. I broke the glass, I hurt my whole hand… I went to the police and they told me I was drunk. ‘You’ll get better,’ they told me.”
Bolivian indigenous people believe that Pachamama “opens her mouth” to receive offerings in August.
Many partygoers then offer the “goddess” a wide variety of gifts, including live animals, sheep fetuses, cacao leaves, and colorful candies.
However, some speculate that ancient human sacrifices and offerings are still performed in secret. These gifts to the “deity” continue throughout the year, along with folk dances and ritual ceremonies.
https://sofadasala-noticias.blogspot.com/2024/10/pachamama-e-um-demonio-exposed.html
SOURCE
BURKE, Olivia. DEAD MAN WAKING
THE SUN/UK, 12 Aug 2022
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/19490481/drunk-woke-up-buried-inside-coffin-ritual-human-sacrifice/
