"The ball game was literally a matter of life and death for ancient Mesoamericans." This sentence is true of the game Pokatok, played by the ancient Mayans. I remember seeing this game (stop at 3:40) in the DreamWorks film The Road to Eldorado. While it presented it in a comical and not all together true way, it still remained to intrigue me. I remember later watching a Mayan documentary while in a Spanish class and became further interested in the the Mayans culture and customs. Because of this small amount of information I had of them, it was enough to whet my appetite so I decided to expand it and learn about their popular ballgame: Pokatok.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Pokatok
"The ball game was literally a matter of life and death for ancient Mesoamericans." This sentence is true of the game Pokatok, played by the ancient Mayans. I remember seeing this game (stop at 3:40) in the DreamWorks film The Road to Eldorado. While it presented it in a comical and not all together true way, it still remained to intrigue me. I remember later watching a Mayan documentary while in a Spanish class and became further interested in the the Mayans culture and customs. Because of this small amount of information I had of them, it was enough to whet my appetite so I decided to expand it and learn about their popular ballgame: Pokatok.
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