Ocomtún, with large pyramidlike buildings, stone columns, a ball field and imposing buildings and plazas, was likely an important city, anthropologists say.
The more I hear about these games, the less fun they sound. I think it was just the person who literally puts it through the hoop that gets the riches, though, not the captain?
I have a hazy memory of some Mayan leader called Bird Jaguar The Great actually putting their political opponents inside a ball and kicking it down the steps, but that sounds like a fever dream.
The more I hear about these games, the less fun they sound. I think it was just the person who literally puts it through the hoop that gets the riches, though, not the captain?
I have a hazy memory of some Mayan leader called Bird Jaguar The Great actually putting their political opponents inside a ball and kicking it down the steps, but that sounds like a fever dream.
Bird Jaguar the great likely used his hips or buttocks to send the victim’s remains, encased in a large rubber ball down a long flight of stone steps.
Ball skills!
That doesn’t sound as bad, I was imagining a live captive like in a hamster ball.