The Lost City of the Monkey God Has Finally Been Discovered

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Fisher also theorized that the were-jaguar might be related to the ritualization of ball games in the city. “The figure seems to be wearing a helmet,” he says. In pre-Colombian life in Mesoamerica, ball games were considered godly acts and a central feature of life there.

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