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Mesoamerican Ballgame

Mesoamerican Ballgame. Ballcourt. Ballcourt at Monte Alban. Player and Uniform. A yoke carved into a fanciful representation of a frog. This 40 lb (18 kg) stone carving is considered too heavy for actual play, and was probably worn about the waist only on ritual occasions.

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Mesoamerican Ballgame

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  1. Mesoamerican Ballgame

  2. Ballcourt Ballcourt at Monte Alban

  3. Player and Uniform A yoke carved into a fanciful representation of a frog. This 40 lb (18 kg) stone carving is considered too heavy for actual play, and was probably worn about the waist only on ritual occasions. A ball player from a Maya vase, 650-800 CE. This well-dressed player is wearing a large yoke, painted and fringed deerskin hip guards, and an extremely elaborate headdress. He is dropping onto his knee(pad) to strike the ball

  4. Ballcourt Markers Ballcourt goal, Chichén Itzá

  5. Popul Vuh:Ballcourt and Myth Hero Twins Hun Hunahpu (One Hunahpu) and Vuvub Hunahpu (Seven Hunahpu) love to throw dice and play ball in their masonry ballcourt with Hun Hunapuh’s sons, Hun Batz and Hun Chouen.

  6. Hero Twins:Hunahpu and Xbalanque Cylinder Vase, Peten, Guatemala, AD 593-830, Ceramic with red, white and black on yellow-cream slip, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

  7. The Hero Twins • The earthly ballcourt is also the path to the gloomy netherworld realm of Xibalba. • Infuriated by incessant pounding on court above their heads, the lords of Xibalba send owls to summon Hunahpu and Xbalanque, the younger sons of Hun Hunahpu, to the underworld. • A monster beheads Hunahpu and the death gods challenges Xbalanque to a new ballgame with the head. Xbalanque manages to replace the head and the brothers defeat the gods. • In underworld the twins play ball with the death gods, and allow themselves to be beaten.

  8. A stone marker at the Mayan site of Copan represents Hunahpu playing against a death god.

  9. Ballcourt Marker • At Chinkultic in highland Chiapas, another Late Classic ballcourt marker depicts a ballplayer dressed in death symbols striking the ball with his hips. • Incised on this ball is the head of Hunahpu.

  10. These markers suggest that the Mayans reenacted the mythological game on their ballcourts.

  11. Sacrifice of the Player One of a series of murals from the South Ballcourt at El Tajin, showing the sacrifice of a ballplayer.

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