Ball player Classic Veracruz Mexico 300-600 Ceramic ( One of the characteristics of the Mesoamerican culture area was the ball game which was played with a solid rubber ball. Such balls, whose weight ranged from causing an estimated one-half to three kilograms ) 68,3 x 48 x 48 cm
Mesoamerican ballgame The Classic Veracruz culture was seemingly obsessed with the ballgame.[13] The ballgame rituals appear throughout Classic Veracruz monumental art. The walls of largest ballcourt, the East Ballcourt at El Tajin are lined with carved murals showing human sacrifice in the context of the ballgame. The culmination of these murals is a tableau showing the rain god, who pierces his penis (an act of bloodletting) to replenish a vat of the alcoholic, ritual drink pulque, the apparent desired end result of the ballgame ritual sacrifice.
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