Game of ball
 Another
facet of the social and religious life of the Mayans was the
ball game. The called game Pok ta Pok, that was very similar
to soccer to soccer, nevertheless, the exact rules which they
govern the game is known. Practically all the great ceremonial
centers told on a dedicated patio this game. Some great cities
had multiple patios of game and one cuts main surrounded by
great platforms where the class elite and the priests could
see the ceremony and the game. The engravings by all long
and wide it of the field do not leave in doubt the mystical
and religious implications of the sport. The same game was
everything a ritual and the ground of the field thinks that
it represented the Earth platform that separates the human
world (the average world) of the infraworld. The game was
possibly used as some form of religious renovation of Mayan
mythology, but were constructed like a vestibule to the other
world definitively. The game could be used to establish disputes
between city-been, but the spiritual implications of the game
are clearly evident. In the line with the Mayan cosmos, it
was the Gods that determined the winners of the game of the
ball, as well as they decided who would be victorious in the
war. The game was very competitive and bets between the real
spectators and guests were made.
 The
game consisted of two equipment of 4 to 7 players, was played
using the feet, elbows and hips. The ball could not be touched
with the hands and the objective of the game was to increase
to the points happening the ball through the put ring to the
sides of the game patio. The points also could be written
down touching marking positions within the own cut. One of
the objects of the game also, was to maintain the ball above.
The players had to happen under the ball and to strike it
with the elbows and hips until managing to pass it through
the hoops and thus to accumulate points. These abrupt movements
caused according to the evidences that the players used protections
for their called waist, neck and helmets ' Hachas'.
Some of these games had serious complications. There are those
think that the losers were sacrificed while others are convinced
that it was the destiny of the winners. Anyway one knows that
there were made human sacrifices to the conclusion of these
games. The varia type of sacrifice of lease to lease thinks
that and that many the members of the equipment enslaved were
captured. In some sites the victims of the sacrifice were
tied as balls and downwards rolled the steps of the temple.
And in some other places, the victims were beheaded in a ritual
ceremony.
The Mayans had hundreds of Gods and a great one I number
of them tapeworm not even names. Almost each activity which
I make in its daily life was under the control and protection
of a deity.
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