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El Negro, Monument F from the Olmec ruins of Tres Zapotes, Museo Tuxteco, Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz, Mexico.
The famous volcanic rock sculpture “El Negro”, supposedly an ancient sacrificial monument, is reputed to channel powers and
attracts international channelers including actress Shirley McLaine.
I remember watching an old documentary on the Olmecs as a child. There was one Olmec in particular that stood out the most “El Negro”. What was striking is the afro-widows peek or maybe this is a strange helmet?
– Cabeza Olmeca de Veracruz (1938).
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Santiago Tuxtla is a small city and municipality in the Los Tuxtlas region of southern Veracruz, Mexico.
The area was originally part of lands granted to Hernán Cortés by the Spanish Crown in 1531.
The city was founded in 1525, but it did not gain municipal status until 1932.
Today, the municipality is poor and agricultural, but is home to several unique traditions such as the Santiago Tuxtla Fair and the Acarreo de Niño Dios, when images of the Child Jesus are carried in procession several times during the Christmas season.
It is also home to the Museo Regional Tuxteco (Tuxtla Regional Museum) which houses much of the area’s Olmec artifacts, including a number of colossal heads and other monumental stone works.
This face above is from Yucatec, Belize.
Strange looking outfit on a Guatemalan statue carved into one of the boulder Olmecs.
The city’s main plaza hosts the largest Olmec colossal head in Mexico.
The Mesoamerican ballgame or (Ōllamaliztli in Nahuatl (Nahuatl pronunciation: /oːlːamaˈlistɬi/), pitz in Classical Maya) was a sport with ritual associations played since 1,400 B.C. by the pre-Columbian peoples of Ancient Mesoamerica.
Great Ballcourt at Chichen Itza
The sport had different versions in different places during the millennia, and a newer more modern version of the game, ulama, is still played in a few places by the indigenous population.
The rules of Ōllamaliztli are not known, but judging from its descendant, ulama, they were probably similar to racquetball, where the aim is to keep the ball in play. The stone ballcourt goals are a late addition to the game.
In the most common theory of the game, the players struck the ball with their hips, although some versions allowed the use of forearms, rackets, bats, or handstones. The ball was made of solid rubber and weighed as much as 4 kg (9 lbs), and sizes differed greatly over time or according to the version played.
The game had important ritual aspects, and major formal ballgames were held as ritual events, often featuring human sacrifice. The sport was also played casually for recreation by children and perhaps even women.
Ballcourt at Uaxactun, in the Petén Basin region of the Maya lowlands.
Pre-Columbian ballcourts have been found throughout Mesoamerica, as far south as Nicaragua, and possibly as far north as what is now the U.S. state of Arizona. These ballcourts vary considerably in size, but all have long narrow alleys with side-walls against which the balls could bounce.
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Indigenous couple
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Tuxteco Museum, Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz
anthropology.si.edu/olmec/english/sites/TresZapotesImageGallery/heizer
Wiki
egyptsearchforum
journeytothesource
realhistory
Smithsonian
ancient-wisdom
crystalinks
enkispeaks
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