Description: Lifelong ball-player David Miller reframes the Mayan creation story and ritual Mayan ball games from an eco-feminist perspective.
home the cosmic ballgame what 2012 and mayan creation mean for u
When the Hero Twins played ball to avenge the killing of their father, the Maize God, by the Lords of Death, nothing less than their own lives hung in the balance.
Their epic victory, told in the the Popol Vuh (16th-century text of the Mayan creation myth) inspired the sacrificial ballgames of the thousand-year Mayan empire . . .
. . . and the famous Long Count calendar, which concludes a Galactic Great Cycle on December 21, 2012.