[Aztlan] Zapotec ball court at Atzompa investigated

[Justin Kerr]

Does anyone remember the name of the TV film where a group of players from
Northern Mexico were brought to Copan to play in the ball court?
As a matter of fact, the topic is discussed by Ted Leyenaar; The Modern
Ballgames of Sinaloa: A Survival of the Aztec Ullamaliztli in "The Sport of
Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame" edited by E. Michael Whittington
Thames and Hudson.
JK 

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Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:45 PM
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Subject: Re: [Aztlan] Zapotec ball court at Atzompa investigated

Listeros,
 
Has anyone at any time discussed the ball game with the Mayan indians
themselves?  There are many indigineous groups which still live nearby the
large city sites.  The ball game eems to be almost genetically attached to
the mayans and other mesoamericans.  One can even imagine asking some young
Mayans to play the game as they know it on an actual ball court.  It seems
to me that something as fundamental to their culture could be so easily
forgotten.  Passing on a ball game is what parents do to children.  Think
Little League.
 
I also suspect with the large number of ball courts a league at one time
existed between cities.  There was probably even a superbowl.
 
Don Raab

--- On Wed, 3/25/09, D. M. Urquidi <deamayaspin at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: D. M. Urquidi <deamayaspin at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Aztlan] Zapotec ball court at Atzompa investigated
To: "'Sven Röhrig'" <sven at 3phase.de>, aztlan at lists.famsi.org, "Justin Kerr"
<mayavase at verizon.net>
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 9:58 PM



Folks:

Is it possible that the rings are in position for two stars to be
positioned, one in each ring?

It is well known that the Twins are star elements (They become the sun and
the moon later in the Popol Vuh and in some other mss, a constellation)

Dea

> But the Maya and the Western Mexican peoples left imagery
> that cannot be
> denied.
> There is no image of any ball being hit through a ring.
> There are images of two players and multiple players but
> are they in a ball


D. M. Urquidi
P. O. Box 49485
Austin, Texas 78765
http://www.mayalords.org
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ancientamericas/




      

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