....... BallGame .......

The sport more representative of the Maya civilization was the ballgame, better known today as football, but really it was more a ritual than a game, since it represented the passage of the stars and the sun is the source of all life.

The Mayans practiced the ballgame. The tradition mind that the players were prisoners of war. If they lost were decapitated, and if they earned the sacrificed and offered to the gods, without having that opportunity would be different. As such the ballgame, was a ceremonial game representing the passage of the stars and the sun is the source of all life. Where the ball was the representation of the sun.

Although apparently was a tough game, it is significant that people understand the relevance that had the ballgame for the Maya civilization, because the significance is not in who sacrificed, but in the ceremony commemorating the passage of the stars and sun. In addition even though it was a game that required strength and courage above all, loved what the Mayans.

By: Diana Palacios Chacon