Huaca de la Luna

The Huaca de la Luna, 'Temple of the Moon', is a great adobe temple at the Moche capital of Huacas de Moche, near Trujillo on the north coast of Peru. Rebuilt in successive layers between about 100 and 800 CE, it served as a religious centre where human sacrifice took place. Its walls preserve brightly painted reliefs of the Moche deity often called the Decapitator and other figures.