🧵 juego de la creacion and pok ta pok
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Dec 2023 17:11:39 UTC No. 177999
In countries like guatemala, mexico and cuba there is a revival of 2 meso-american games: el juego de la creacion (game of the creation) which is a sort of hockey with a ball constantly on fire, and pok tap pok\juego de pelota, which is a sort of handball but using elbows, knees ,hips and head only. you probably remember this from the "road to el dorado" animated movie.
The players use the very colourful and awesome costumes of mayan or aztec priests for religious (neo-pagan) rituals or tourist events, but many kids and young men play it in normal clothes just like playing soccer of basket.
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Dec 2023 17:15:43 UTC No. 178000
Fully-adorned costume used in a pok-ta-pok game. back then winning team was sacrificed (yes, not the losers; being the sacrifice for god-sun was an honor) Of course that doesnt happen now.
I never played it but its a sort of instinctual game for children, in primary school we always used a soft foam ball and had to keep it in the air without using feet or palms. A bit like japanese Kemari! but in mayan ball game, you need team tactics and there's a goal to pass the ball trough
>body collisions are allowed and encouraged, also
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Dec 2023 11:15:26 UTC No. 178085
What>>177999