A zapoteca city built in 500 BC and very little is known about how they lived at that time. Our guide kept emphasising that all things that had been told about the place were all speculations - he more or less said that our guess was as good as his.
The ball game is a curious ritual/sport that was played by many civilisations - although it's not clear how similar the game played in this early zapoteca court is to the mayan or aztec game. The overall rules are that a rubber ball was hit mostly using hips and in some cases the players were sacrificed to the gods at the end. Some say it was the winner that was sacrificed, as they wanted to send the most powerful one to the gods. Here you can see one of these courts.
The ball game is a curious ritual/sport that was played by many civilisations - although it's not clear how similar the game played in this early zapoteca court is to the mayan or aztec game. The overall rules are that a rubber ball was hit mostly using hips and in some cases the players were sacrificed to the gods at the end. Some say it was the winner that was sacrificed, as they wanted to send the most powerful one to the gods. Here you can see one of these courts. 
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