The girls were trained for about 4 years in religion, spinning and weaving, preparation of food, and brewing chicha. They then became mamakuna (priestesses) and were married to prominent men or assigned to religious duties. The most skilled and physically perfect were sent to Cuzco, the capital of the empire, and might become secondary wives or concubines of the Inca emperor and other noblemen. A few were destined to be sacrificed in a religious ceremony called capacocha. Several archaeological contexts for aclla have been identified, specifically at Huánuco Pampa, including recently discovered evidence of a male "aclla". Their status and function in society is sometimes compared to a similar role that men occupied called the Yanakuna.