Cesar Viveros

Some 3 thousand years ago , in what is now Mexico, Guatemala, Belice, Honduras and El Salvador ,team of players devised a game played with a rubber ball. The significance of this wondrous material cannot be overstated. When Europeans first bouncing rubber balls , they were amazed. How did ancient people learn the milky plant juices could be transformed into a bouncing ball? That discovery is shrouded in misters, I can only speculate, but there is not mystery to the result. It led to a game , one which would become fundamentally intertwined with ancient MesoAmerican life and thought.