When I was there, the guide said that the winning “captain” of the ball play team’s honor was to allow himself to be sacrificed...The losing “captain” had to be the one who cut his head off...
Carved in one of those walls under the stone ring is a a man on his knees and his head lying on the ground...Instead of blood spurting from his neck, there is corn, wheat, fish, and birds coming out...
I’m thinking that perhaps they died out because they had trouble understanding the concepts of “reward” and “punishment”.
“Lebron had a triple-double tonight!”
“Good! Let’s cut his head off!”
“Uh, coach....the guys on the team are all asking to ride the bench now.”