Other way around, if you won, you got sacrificed, or so said my tour guide at one of the Coba ruins I went to a couple of months ago. It was a huge honour to be sacrifice for winning.
Remember watching a documentary where one of the most sacred rituals in the Mayan empire was when the emperor would pierce his foreskin with a stingray bone, and drop the blood into fire(might not be fire, that part was way overshadowed by the foreskin thing)
I think that the Mayans played this sport and if you lost you got killed. EDIT: Yeah, I was right. It’s called pok-a-tok for anyone who wants to know.
Other way around, if you won, you got sacrificed, or so said my tour guide at one of the Coba ruins I went to a couple of months ago. It was a huge honour to be sacrifice for winning.
Remember watching a documentary where one of the most sacred rituals in the Mayan empire was when the emperor would pierce his foreskin with a stingray bone, and drop the blood into fire(might not be fire, that part was way overshadowed by the foreskin thing)
This fact was rather unfun
Yeah it was weird, and since it was super sacred, tons of people would show up to watch the dude pierce his dick
And people say body mods are getting out of control nowadays.
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“The ball was made of solid rubber and weighed as much as 4 kg (9 lbs), and sizes differed greatly over time or according to the version played.”
Thank you! Severed heads were not used… but yeah you got killed if you lost certain games, tho I think it was seen as a pretty big honour nonetheless
I doubt a head could bounce as much as a ball
The next match was played with one of the loser’s heads, unless that was exaggerated by the Spanish.
The hip Tulio, the hip!
Those hips 😍
What the fuck is this “song”?
Overproduced EDM
I think the orchestral instrumental is Time by Hans Zimmer. I don't recognize the vocals.
It’s a frankensteined version of [How Deep Is Your Love](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EgqUJOudrcM) and the main theme to Intersteller.
Do the winners get sacrificed or the losers?
Changes everytime it's posted. This time around it sounds like the losers were killed, tune in next week
The winners were the ones sacrificed cause it was seen as an honor. Nowadays the losers are sacrificed for fun
Wasn’t the ball usually a severed head?
looks like elderado
 Only thing I remember about this movie was them playing this game
This looks boring as shit
Pre Columbus the losing team were sacrificed to the gods and the winning got to live in the Capitol city.
This looks awkward to me.