Ball Player 7th–10th century Mexico Mesoamerica Veracruz Nopiloa Ceramic 26 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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