BALL GAMEWas consider by Mayas like a ritual, symbolizing the origin of universe and other astrological phenomenos; the game shows the fight between players, in one side the twins and in the other side the gods of inframundo. The objective of the game was to players should be pass the ball fabricated with rubber, into a small circle located in one of the walls of the play camp; nowadays these sport is practice in Guatemala and Mexico.
In other place where the play camp doesn’t have small circles in the walls, the winner is the team or player who wins more lines in the play camp until enclose the opposite team/player, just like American Soccer.
The number of players is different, and in some cases players can use objects like sticks and can protect their chest and head to strong knocks, the game would be played during day and night, some researches shows that the player who lose his live was a prisoner of war that after receive knocks from winners is obligated to play and after it was sacrificed, taken place in a fertility ritual because they will goes to a paradise. Not all times the game ending in human sacrifices, because players just bet and the lose it was just the bet.
In other place where the play camp doesn’t have small circles in the walls, the winner is the team or player who wins more lines in the play camp until enclose the opposite team/player, just like American Soccer.
The number of players is different, and in some cases players can use objects like sticks and can protect their chest and head to strong knocks, the game would be played during day and night, some researches shows that the player who lose his live was a prisoner of war that after receive knocks from winners is obligated to play and after it was sacrificed, taken place in a fertility ritual because they will goes to a paradise. Not all times the game ending in human sacrifices, because players just bet and the lose it was just the bet.
By Jennifer Jimenez J
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