Dying to Rule: Sex and Power in Moche Society – 2007
The Ceremony of Procreative Copulation
The success of the procreative sex acts of “Wrinkle Face” depended upon a complex ritual. First, two women give a stick to a bird with human features and then, the figures uses the stick to stir a potion cooking in a pot. Then, the same individual takes the vessel to a terraced platform where, it is poured on the back of “Wrinkle Face”, while he engages in vaginal copulation with a woman in the shadow of a temple with a gable roof.