DETAILS ABOUT MAYANS
Added on: 3rd Dec 2015
JUST LIKE THE AZTECS, THE MAYANS WERE AVID
PLAYERS OF THE "MESOAMERICAN BALLGAME".
COURTS WERE FOUND IN ALL MAJOR CITIES AND IT
WAS OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH DECAPITATION AND
SACRIFICE, POSSIBLY OF THE LOSING TEAM.
IN FACT, SEVERED HEADS HAVE BEEN THOUGHT TO
BE USED AS BALLS
A MODERN VERSION CALLED "ULAMA" IS STILL PLAYED
TODAY, BUT DECAPITATION IS OBVIOUSLY
NO LONGER A PART OF THE GAME
SAUNAS AND SWEAT BATHS PLAYED A HUGE ROLE IN
MAYAN CULTURE. THEY BELIEVED THAT THE SAUNAS
HELPED THEM RELIEVE IMPURITIES
ALTHOUGH THE MAYAN PEOPLE LIVE ON TODAY,
THE LAST SELF-GOVERNING MAYAN STATE
SUBMITTED TO SPANISH RULE IN 1697
THE RUINS AND PYRAMIDS YOU ALWAYS SEE IN PICTURES
ARE MOST LIKELY THOSE OF CHICHEN ITZA, ONE OF THE
LARGEST MAYAN CITIES. IT HAS JUST RECENTLY BEEN
BOUGHT BY THE GOVERNMENT FROM A PRIVATE OWNER
PRISONERS, SLAVES, AND OTHERS WERE PREPARED FOR
SACRIFICE BY BEING PAINTED BLUE AND SOMETIMES
TORTURED. THEY WERE THEN LED UP TO THE TOP OF ONE
OF THE PYRAMIDS. THERE THEY WERE EITHER SHOT WITH
A VOLLEY OF ARROWS OR THEY HAD THEIR STILL BEATING
HEART CUT OUT OF THEIR CHEST BY A TEMPLE PRIEST.
SOMETIMES THE ASSISTANT PRIESTS WOULD THEN SKIN
THE VICTIM AND THE HEAD PRIEST WOULD DRESS HIMSELF
IN THE SKIN AND PERFORM A RITUAL DANCE.
CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, THE MAYANS DON'T HAVE
JUST ONE CALENDAR AND NONE OF THEIR CALENDARS
PREDICTED THE WORLD WOULD END IN 2012
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