• livus@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The more I hear about these games, the less fun they sound. I think it was just the person who literally puts it through the hoop that gets the riches, though, not the captain?

    I have a hazy memory of some Mayan leader called Bird Jaguar The Great actually putting their political opponents inside a ball and kicking it down the steps, but that sounds like a fever dream.

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      1 year ago

      Bird Jaguar the great likely used his hips or buttocks to send the victim’s remains, encased in a large rubber ball down a long flight of stone steps.

      Ball skills!

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        1 year ago

        That doesn’t sound as bad, I was imagining a live captive like in a hamster ball.