. The myths of Mexico and Peru. d Guatemala. The object of the game wasto putt the ball through a small hole in a circularstone or goal, and the player who succeeded in doingthis might demand from the audience all their clothesand jewels. The game, as we have said, was exceed-ingly popular in ancient Central America, and there isgood reason to believe that inter-city matches tookplace between the various city-states, and were accom-panied by a partisanship and rivalry as keen as thatwhich finds expression among the crowd at our principalfootball matches to-day. A Challenge from Hades On one oc
. The myths of Mexico and Peru. d Guatemala. The object of the game wasto putt the ball through a small hole in a circularstone or goal, and the player who succeeded in doingthis might demand from the audience all their clothesand jewels. The game, as we have said, was exceed-ingly popular in ancient Central America, and there isgood reason to believe that inter-city matches tookplace between the various city-states, and were accom-panied by a partisanship and rivalry as keen as thatwhich finds expression among the crowd at our principalfootball matches to-day. A Challenge from Hades On one occasion Hunhun-Apu and Vukub-Hunapuplayed a game of ball which in its progress took theminto the vicinity of the realm of Xibalba (the KicheHades). The rulers of that drear abode, imaginingthat they had a chance of capturing the brothers,extended a challenge to them to play them at ball,and this challenge Hun-Came and Vukub-Came, thesovereigns of the Kiche Hell, despatched by fourmessengers in the shape of owls. The brothers 220. The Princess and the GourdsGilbert James THE FOOLING OF THE BRETHREN accepted the challenge, and, bidding farewell to theirmother Xmucane and their respective sons andnephews, followed the feathered messengers down thelong hill which led to the Underworld. The Fooling of the Brethfen The American Indian is grave and taciturn. Ifthere is one thing he fears and dislikes more thananother it is ridicule. To his austere and haughty-spirit it appears as something derogatory to hisdignity, a slur upon his manhood. The hero-brothershad not been long in Xibalba when they discoveredthat it was the intention of the Lords of Hades tofool them and subject them to every species of in-dignity. After crossing a river of blood, they came tothe palace of the Lords of Xibalba, where they espiedtwo seated figures in front of them. Thinking thatthey recognised in them Hun-Came and Vukub-Came,they saluted them in a becoming manner, only to dis-cover to their mortification th
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