Being offered as a human sacrifice
Terrified Víctor Hugo Mica Alvarez, 30, smashed out of the casket in Achacachi about 50 miles from where he passed out in the city of El Alto, Bolivia.
He was a guest at the annual event, where indigenous groups gather to worship the goddess Pachamama by making offerings to her. He drank heavily the night before at the opening of the Mother Earth festival in August.
This year’s Pachamama took place on August 1, with one ritual involving indigenous people gathering at dawn for a ceremony with fires and offerings. On the Day of Mother Earth, followers go to the highest elevations they can to burn wood stacks with animal fat, coloured paper and sweets to thank the goddess.
He told the police that he was used as a sullu (i.e. any offerings commonly made to give back to Mother Earth, or ‘Pachamama’, throughout August in Bolivia).
‘When I pushed the coffin I barely broke the glass and, through the glass, dirt began to enter. They wanted to use me as a sullu.’
Pictures taken by the press show him looking bloodied and bruised in the aftermath of his alleged escape.
Source: I got so drunk, I passed out — and woke up in a coffin (nypost.com)