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For centuries the ballgame was a fundamental part of the lives of many civilizations, is not without the Mayan culture, which left buried remains of the hugeplaying fields in Mexico The largest and best known is the Ball Court at Chichén Itza.
The Ball Court was proper in every civilization, they put at the discretion of their rules, but thebackground was the same game. The game is played with two teams and a rubber ball, but the court was sunken, walled. The present field measured at Chechén Itza one hundred and seventymeters long and seventy feet wide. During the game, the ball must pass through stone hoops were on each side, using only the hips.
To play the ball was selected the best warriors, themost flexible and strong well represented, to the divinities in the field. The platforms that surround the area served to the rulers and priests observed with much detail the game. Asresearched, the figures carved on the walls around the pitch to speak of mystical and religious connotations.
It is believed that members of the losing team were sacrificed, this dueto the representations of men without head and bleeding along with other live players. Others believe that those who gained were worthy of the sacrifice of their lives, but there aredoubts about the value system of the Maya, whether they considered worth talking in terms of winners and losers, as they know their beliefs exceeding all natural boundaries land, andprobably the game was considered a representation of what was to come, a means of entering the battle of the sun and other stars, entering and leaving the world above the underworld. Themystery remains and evidence of life and death of a mystical, murderous people leave no one indifferent...
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