The idea of sacrificing people, including children, on a large scale, tearing out their hearts, skinning them, and bathing in their blood in public on a daily basis is incomprehensible from today's point of view. However, this is exactly what many Latin American peoples did in pre-Columbian times. They sacrificed captives, slaves, and sometimes their... Continue Reading →
For humans and animals, the Yucatan context has always meant that they had to search for water underground or use broken Cenotes as wells.
You could begin the story like a pitch-black fairy tale. "Once upon a time, there was a young girl, barely sixteen years old. She had just given birth to her first child and, after wandering through unknown territories, she desperately searched for water in a region where there seemed to be neither rivers nor lakes..."... Continue Reading →
It was a game of life and death. The “Pok-a-tok” in the the Mayan language was a ball game similar to soccer. It was held during ritual celebrations. The object of the game was to move the rubber ball by bouncing it off the hips or knees without using the hands or feet. The team... Continue Reading →
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