On the ball court where teams of Mayan athletes competed, the stakes must have been really high. At the end the losers—or in some versions of the story, the winners–were taken to the top of a temple to be sacrificed.
It’s a truly weird story but…really? Why would it make any sense to kill off your best and strongest? It’s most likely fake news, but we’ll never know for sure, because there isn’t much that’s easy to interpret in what’s left of what was obviously a great empire in Mexico and Central America.
Mayan sites always raise more questions than they answer and none are more head scratching than the lost city of Kohunlich.
Read it all in The Cruisington Times