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BALL PLAYERS

The religious symbolism of the ball game is complex, it was staged in the
earth what was happening in heaven where the gods played that, when they faced each other,
they were trying to establish a balance in the universe. Its execution represented
the opposition of opposing forces such as day and night sky, drought
and fertility, light and darkness and, as a transposition, men
they performed the game on the ground plane. In Nayarit they met
models that represent the fields of the ball game and that reflect
in plastic form the discoveries in the architecture of the sites. The figures
ballplayers' holes in the West hold a kind of mace
in their hands, protectors on the body and head, or a ball
between the hands. Small stone balls have been found within the
courts that seem to be the nuclei of hule ball, as well as
depictions of the ball in stone.

Provenance: Shaft Tombs
Chronology: 200 BC - 600 AD