Anthropos: Anthropos, 67.1972

Anthropos, 67.1972

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Wissensgebiet:: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie > Allgemeines

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Titel:: Baessler-Archiv, 46/47=71/72.1998/99

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Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: N. F. Bd. 47, 1999, Heft 1

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The Structure of Taj in World-View 441 are two rubber balls, and further, shields and spears, references to war and the Sacred War. Other examples of this right-angle ollin in association with a rubber ball are to be found in the Codex Borgia (sheet 62) and the Vaticanus B (sheet 67), in both of which is present Xochiquetzal, goddess of flowers and °f pleasure, but also frequently identified with the ball-game. This netted ollin and the ball-court are shown in the Aubin Tonalamatl and the Borbonicus (Seler 1902-03: 278). Duality and movement, then, were concepts employed in the symbolism °f the ball-game, and if these were considered fundamental expressions of life, it is not surprising to find strong support for a further relation of the ^all-game to general fertility and agriculture. Spinden (1933: 247) presents an argument for the fertility aspects of the ball-game based in part upon the association of ball-courts with water in the Codices Colombino and Borbonicus, and Tezozomoc's legend of the founding of Coatepec, where animal and vege table life originate at the ball-court. She also mentions a number of ethno graphic examples of ball-games in North America which were agriculturally °riented (Spinden 1933: 258 f.). Stern (1948:54) reports that Tezozomoc described how a court was divided in half and in the center a triangle was drawn around a hole, which was called the well of water. And from the "Leyenda de los Soles” comes the following story: "Jugó Huémac a la pelota, y jugé con los Tlaloque. Luego dijeron los Tlaloque: Q u é ganáramos en el Juego?’ Y dijo Huémac: ‘Mis chalchihuites y mis plumas de Quet- Zalli -’ Otra vez dijeron a Huémac: ‘Eso mismo ganas tú: nuestros chalchihuites y nue stras plumas de Quetzalli.’ Jugó Huémac y les ganó. Fueron enseguida los Tlaloque a trocar lo que habían de dar a Huémac, esto es, elotes (masorcas de maiz verde) y los pré posas hojas de maiz verde en el que el elote crece” (Florescano 1964; 136). Here, the ball-game’s ritual importance for fertility is clearly seen, as is maize, the Mexican staff of life, which is "won” on the playing field. Of the gods associated with the ball-game a large number, including Xipe Totec, Centeotl, and Coatlicue, are fertility deities. Xochipilli and Xochi- yuetzal, in addition to Xolotl, are often mentioned as patrons of the game, a logical association as they are deities of games; but they are also gods of dowers and pleasure, and fundamentally, fertility gods. Xochipilli is some- Ifloes considered as a variation of Centeotl, the young maize god (Stern 1948: 68; Vaillant 1940: 179). In relation to its fertility association, it is sometimes suggested that the a fl~game was direct sexual symbolism, the passing of the ball through the floal being a symbol of intercourse. In support of this hypothesis, Linga (1949: ^1) reports that some chroniclers said that when a player managed the rare ^ a t of actually scoring a goal, the crowd shouted "Eres un gran adultero”. °Wever, the specific chroniclers are not mentioned. The evidence for the association of the ball-game and sacrifice, both by heart removal and decapitation, is overwhelming, and here again it is fertility y * c h is the unifying factor. Sacrifice is shown taking place in the ball-court 11 the NE panel of the Large Ball-court, and sacrifice, a fertility ceremony, an< I the ball-court are all shown on one scene from the columns. In the Codex

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