Mesoamerican ball game

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A ball game – the general cultural tradition of all people of Mesoamerica. A ball played not only the Maya, but also Aztecs, Veracruz, Colima, nayarit, etc. Full rules of the game are unknown. Moreover probably uniform rules were not since each culture and the people brought certain editings. Ball game scene. Maya. Monument 171. Museo Nacional Mexico City collection. It is supposed that the ball associated with movement of heavenly bodies, fight of day and night, life and death. The team which has allowed a stop of a ball, lost. The winner was defined by a way of counting of points. The Spanish priest Dyuran Diego mentions that...