Aztec Rubber Ball Game

At the end of the semester we played the mesoamerican ball game.

Aztec rubber ball game.

Serious injury was common as players dove onto stone courts to keep a ball in play and would end the game bloodied and bruised. The mesoamerican ball game was a game where the action reached unimaginable levels of violence even by today s standards. But of course the biggest and best was in the capital city. The ball itself was called ōllamaloni and the ballcourt was called a tlachtli ˈtɬatʃtɬi.

Ancient mesoamericans were the first people to invent rubber balls nahuatl languages. Ulama is a ball game played in mexico currently experiencing a revival from its home in a few communities in the state of sinaloa descended from the aztec version of the mesoamerican ballgame the game is one of the oldest continuously played sports in the world and is notable for the fact that it is the oldest known game using a rubber ball. 1502 1520 ce and the king of texcoco. A foretaste of what would become common practice for players unfortunate enough to lose a game.

One of the common links of the mayan culture of mexico guatemala honduras and belize is the game played with a rubber ball about which we have learned from several. In another legend a famous ball game was held at the aztec capital of tenochtitlan between the aztec king motecuhzoma xocoyotzin r. The latter had predicted. The team with the most points won.

Tarkanian and hosler mostly created sheets of rubber in the lab but they did make a few rubber balls during one session. The aztec version of the ballgame is called ōllamalitzli sometimes spelled ullamaliztli and are derived from the word ōlli rubber and the verb ōllama or to play ball. Every town and village in the aztec empire had a ball court. Losing the game hun hunahpús had his head cut off.

The aztec ball game had a distinctive court known as the tlachtli or tlachco. The goal of the game was simple. Maya ballgame which is a branch of the mesoamerican ballgame is a sporting event that was played throughout the mesoamerican era by the maya civilization the maya civilization was spread out throughout much of central america. There were two ways to get points.