June 15, 2017
ONE WAY TO SPEED UP BALLGAMES...:
An Aztec Temple Emerges in Heart of Mexico City (REUTERS, JUNE 12, 2017)
The site is near the Templo Mayor, another massive Aztec ruin. The excavations, begun in 2009, reveal a section of what was the foundation of a huge circular temple dedicated to the Aztec wind god Ehecatl and a part of a ritual ball court.Archaeologists have also found 32 severed male neck vertebrae in a pile just off the court -- probably sacrifices linked to the Aztec ballgame.
Ritual beheadings for delay of game?
Posted by Orrin Judd at June 15, 2017 7:12 AM