The above image from the amphitheater wall of the Chichén Itzá city complex is of a Mayan athlete prepared for the religious ritual of an athletic match, the goal of which was to encourage the great snake god Kukulkan to replenish the earth with water through the blood of ceremonial athletes. From their youth, Mayan athletes were raised to prepare themselves for the blessed glory of sacrificial decapitation at the hand of their opponents. The games were religious rituals which commenced during key astronomical cycles and were meant to invoke the favor of the gods. Athletes wore protective leg and shin pads and carried a stick with which they swatted both the ball and opponents.

The sports arena was a reflection of Mayan architectural and mathematical genius. The acoustics were designed so that one visiting king could speak to another visiting king nearly four hundred yards away by sitting on their elevated platforms and speaking in a normal tone. It really works!

The game ended when one team captain placed the rubber-like ball through the stone ring pictured above. Recent scholarship indicates that the winners, not the losers, were decapitated at the hands of the losing team captain. Execution was considered an honor. Games continued unabated, with decapitation after decapitation, sometimes for weeks, until the Mayans saw a sign that the animal gods would send rain.

Look carefully at the above image on the stadium wall. It depicts a Mayan athlete after decapitation shooting forth “the blood of life” in the form of serpents of blood to replenish the life of the earth. To the left (just outside the picture) is the “tree of life” which springs forth from the death of the athlete, and is watered in the blood of the dead as a sacrifice to renew the culture. The Mayan religion is a genuine perversion of biblical Christianity in that it recognizes a triune serpent which created man from the dust of the ground, and gives life in response to human executions because the life is in the blood.

This is a broader look at the stone relief work on the stadium wall depicting the execution of the winning athlete.

Cultures like the Mayans and the Aztecs were scientifically and technologically light years ahead of the American Indians, but the Mayan technology and science became focused on an ever more horrific obsession with human sacrifice, cannibalism, pedophilia, and other, even more unspeakable horrors. These walls depicting hundreds of skulls are believed to mark the site where the cremated bodies of the sacrificed athletes were used to symbolically fertilize the world of the Mayans.