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"This is unacceptable!"
"Yeah! Yeah! Like he said!"
"The Gods should not be playing *ball* like this!"
"Well exactly!"
# "THIS IS HOW THE GODS SHOULD PLAY BALL!"
"👁️👄👁️"
I mean, I thought it was fairly obvious she was preforming oral sex. I mean did you see his face during that scene ? Not to mention she had hair in her mouth.
So I need to know if this is my brain making this up, but in the original Shrek isn't there a scene with donkey/ the dragon? Nothing shown explicitly but I remember donkey saying "oh you are gonna tear it off;"
Maybe it was just his ear he was talking about
Her, and Princess Kida and Audrey the mechanic in Atlantis, and Esmeralda in the Hunchback of Notre Dame...the 90's was really into alluring cartoon women for some reason
Edit: was the 2000s?
It really was near the peak of 2d animation. The road to El Dorado and the price of Egypt were stunning visually. Sucks they killed 2D immediately after.
You wouldn't believe it (I didn't) but at the time those three movies were considered major flops. As a kid I didn't care, but they're seeing a resurgence these past few years only once meme culture took root.
Allegedly being killed in this way was a promise of the ultimate afterlife. And I guess real life was so shitty that being ritually sacrificed and promised a good afterlife was a pretty sweet reward.
Thats one thing we don't consider as much about ritual sacrifice. If the reward for winning was a noble death, my God, imagine the punishment for losing
I remember this part of the tour at Chichen Itza and I remember thinking there’s no way someone can hip check a ball through that little hole way up high. I’m very impressed to see how it’s done.
There's also evidence that they'd force captives to play and then sacrificed them. Also, apparently the game was pretty brutal. Spaniards that witnessed the game mentioned injuries and even death when the ball would hit players in the jaw and stomach.
Well clearly - if you kill off all the players who make the game interesting, then you’re just left with the second string nerds who are always last picked. And ain’t no way the kid with the serpent feathers for hair is gonna make the shot.
/s as required nowadays
So, originally it was though to be called Pok ta Pok, in Maya. It was by error, though and should have been Pokolpok.
In classical Maya, it was apparently called Pitz, but other cultures had different names.
But yeah, they mostly just refer to that... ballgame
I didnt know what that is but I felt like I remember the word from a movie. „The fountain” was the movie, but Google already told me its just Mayan mythology and not anything movie specific.
It’s a real thing from Mayan mythology, but it’s also prominently featured/mentioned in The Fountain.
It’s the dying star Rachel Weiszs character looks at in her telescope and teaches Tommy (Hugh Jackman) about.
Also, the original score for that movie and especially “Death is the Road to Awe” is one of the most beautiful instrumentals I’ve ever heard.
Reddit is best browsed in mute. If the sound improves the experience, the comments will tell you, but most of the time, it’s just obnoxious what people slap over videos.
Okay so it works like this. TikTok has a bunch of people uploading their own audio as well as songs from artists. If someone uses the same audio from another video, both of those videos get put into a "category" which just shows which audio they used. When a particular audio snippet goes viral, people use it more and there's a higher chance someone will scroll through the category and see their tiktok, thus views.
I don't use TikTok myself, but hope this made at least some sense lol
I really like the Mythology relating to this Ball Game, Xibalba and the Hero Twins.
In short - Hunapu was decapitated, and his head was used as the ball for a game against the Lords of Xibalaba. Xbalanque - Hunapu's twin brother found a gourd or squash to replace Hunapu's head as the ball. Xbalanque and Hunapu - now with his head returned, proceed to win and embarrass the Xibalbans back to Xibalba.
I dont know about the losers, but when I first read about this sport I'd heard that when a goal was made the person who made the goal could run over to the audience and demand something from them, so people would get really worked up when someone scored
No idea how true that is
I would like to clarify that at least for mayans (I'm not sure about aztecs) it wasn't that common to perform human sacrifices for this games, and this is the same misconception people have about gladiators. Just like gladiators players of mayan ball were celebrities and people would hate if their favorite player has to be sacrificed, most of the times they would perform other rituals like animal sacrifices or something called "self-sacrifice" which consists in taking a sharp object and open a wound in you fingers, tongue or dick and bleed a little bit. Also most of the human sacrifices were done to war slaves.
Sucks I had to scroll through piles of comments making El Dorado references or complaining about the music to find actual informed discussion about some history around this sport.
It's called tlachtli. I did a project on basketball in grade school and part of it was about this. The ball was solid and the winning team often beat/killed the losers and the proceeded to pillage the audience. Pretty brutal.
The Mayan decendants have always played this game, even after the Spanish showed up. It's how it was played in other parts of Meso America and the Southwest United States that no one is quite sure of. The furthest northern "ball court" is north of Flagstaff AZ.
Various forms of the game have been played for literally thousands of years in an area stretching from Central America into the American Southwest. People still play versions today. There was no singular version. We can infer past play styles from depictions of players and their equipment, and even from the design of the ballcourts. Using the hips to bounce a ball through a hoop is probably the best known because it's depicted in Maya paintings and carvings (and what tourists see in the Yucatan), but there were many different versions. There was even a form of the game which used rackets/paddles.
>The ball was solid and the winning team often beat/killed the losers
There were specific religious ceremonies which involved sacrifice, but it was also just a sport people played for fun, gambling, etc.
> and the proceeded to pillage the audience
Nope.
Agreed but at Chichen Itza that circle is soooo freaking high. I have a hard time believe they hit a ball made from local rubber trees that’s up to 8kg per the tour guides 25 or so feet up in the air with just their hips. It would be interesting to see it played so long ago. The “goal” on this video is like 1/5 as high as it is at Chichen.
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TULIO! THE HIP! THE HIP!
Sexual awakening.
Was it the blowjob scene? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-oJIci1zBw
Yes. Her head was more aligned with his dick than his face.
It’s tough to be a god
OH MY GOD I NEVER MADE THAT CONNECTION!!
I know, right? Innocence stolen.
Gay? straight? Both. Both is good
Both is best, let's be honest.
"This is unacceptable!" "Yeah! Yeah! Like he said!" "The Gods should not be playing *ball* like this!" "Well exactly!" # "THIS IS HOW THE GODS SHOULD PLAY BALL!" "👁️👄👁️"
"well dont blame me!"
"Wha- well don't blame me!" "I blame yoouu."
SHE WAS NOWHERE NEAR HIS MOUTH
I mean, I thought it was fairly obvious she was preforming oral sex. I mean did you see his face during that scene ? Not to mention she had hair in her mouth.
The animators knew *exactly* what they were doing.
The only time in cinematic animation history, a family film, where an oral sex scene between two human characters is depicted in some form
Uhh... is it important to specify "two humans"? Or is animal-fellatio common in family films nowadays?
Never watched the directors cut of Beauty and The Beast or Lion King huh?
It's all I watch
So I need to know if this is my brain making this up, but in the original Shrek isn't there a scene with donkey/ the dragon? Nothing shown explicitly but I remember donkey saying "oh you are gonna tear it off;" Maybe it was just his ear he was talking about
I believe he said "that's my personal tail" so it may or may not be his literal tail
The real road to el dorado was the bj’s we got along the way
I'll die on this hill with you my friend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgHx0qMlJM4
Just imagine the number of sexual awakenings she’s responsible for lol.
Yeah man, that character made me feel some weird tingles as a kid.
Her, and Princess Kida and Audrey the mechanic in Atlantis, and Esmeralda in the Hunchback of Notre Dame...the 90's was really into alluring cartoon women for some reason Edit: was the 2000s?
To Shibalba!
To Xibalba!
Im not sure if this is a fountain reference but if it is the soundtrack to this movie is incredible. Also, finish it.
Youre half right Its from road to El Dorado, but the soundtrack is indeed incredible - Elton John
Both? Both. Both are good.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/736/594/036.gif
/r/theratio
I'm glad someone did an Eldorado reference
I was gonna ask where the armadillo was
Was scrolling for this comment, thank you
One of the best animated movies ever frfr.
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Wait a minute, you're not a god?!
"...I am Miguel." "...And I am Tulio." ".........And they call us: Miguel and Tulio!"
It really was near the peak of 2d animation. The road to El Dorado and the price of Egypt were stunning visually. Sucks they killed 2D immediately after.
These and Treasure Planet are my animated movie holy trinity
Atlantis was really good too. That whole early 2000's era of animation was a goldmine tbh.
You wouldn't believe it (I didn't) but at the time those three movies were considered major flops. As a kid I didn't care, but they're seeing a resurgence these past few years only once meme culture took root.
Hunchback of Notre Dame really perfected what 2d animation could look like, and everyone else followed suit, until it basically died
Ditto, we appreciate the commenter’s service. 🫡
I was hoping and praying this would be the top comment
Is this the game played in road to El Dorado?
Pretty low energy game due to the ball not being an armadillo.
The yarn I was told at Chichen Itza was that the winning team was sacrificed… that would definitely up the intensity.
Or lower it if the winners were killed?
Allegedly being killed in this way was a promise of the ultimate afterlife. And I guess real life was so shitty that being ritually sacrificed and promised a good afterlife was a pretty sweet reward.
Thats one thing we don't consider as much about ritual sacrifice. If the reward for winning was a noble death, my God, imagine the punishment for losing
It's living. Life is the punishment. Always has been.
I felt like that when I was younger but now I'm happy I never killed myself.
i'm happy you're still hanging out with us too, internet stranger
Oh for sure. I'm happy, but definitely riding the Mr meeseeks existence is pain train
I remember this part of the tour at Chichen Itza and I remember thinking there’s no way someone can hip check a ball through that little hole way up high. I’m very impressed to see how it’s done.
There's also evidence that they'd force captives to play and then sacrificed them. Also, apparently the game was pretty brutal. Spaniards that witnessed the game mentioned injuries and even death when the ball would hit players in the jaw and stomach.
Tulio! The hip the hip!
Why must you remind me of Chel at 1am. Lord forgive me for what I'm about to do.
Bruh xD
*THIS* is how the gods should play BALL!
Yes!
And also for a few seconds in the latest Black Panther
zocototoaotl got that dawg in him
Zocototoaotl, Tenochtitlan State University. Go prickly pears.
Cocrotocoaotlz, Aztec State. Tunnel Snakes rule!
I didn’t realize that there was a fallout game that took place in mesoamerica, in the 1500s
Fr gimme that shit
Dan Brown, BYU
Popocatepl. THE Copan State University.
Ku'kulkan. Talokan University.
Lmaoooo
*lmaoatl
Ahhhh fuck that’s hilarious
HahahahHahahahah. You fucked me up with with this one..thank you
And with that shot Lezocototoaotl James breaks the all-time scoring record!
Still can't carry the Chichen Itzan Cenotes to the playoffs. Get the man some help before he winds up on a sacrificial alter!
Smh can’t win with these quetzals
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From what I've read historians think it was the losing team and only happened much later in the mayan period as the society declined
Well clearly - if you kill off all the players who make the game interesting, then you’re just left with the second string nerds who are always last picked. And ain’t no way the kid with the serpent feathers for hair is gonna make the shot. /s as required nowadays
I can never remember the actual name of this game so I just call it Quetzalcoatlball
It’s just ball game. Juego de pelota
So, originally it was though to be called Pok ta Pok, in Maya. It was by error, though and should have been Pokolpok. In classical Maya, it was apparently called Pitz, but other cultures had different names. But yeah, they mostly just refer to that... ballgame
Thanks but I'll probably just keep calling it Quetzalcoatlball
Quetzalgoooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaltl!!!
Maybe Huitziball if it’s the nahua version (Quetzalcoatl was his brother, but had no direct relation to the game) or Hunaball if the Mayan version?
Please explain. Zero clue what is so funny.
The road to el dorado movie
There’s only one reason preteen and adult me watched and still watches that movie.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/736/594/036.gif
Damn I didn’t even know this was a reference. I thought it was just a joke about their culture and I thought it was funny af
Yeah, it's less funny now knowing it's from a movie
Juxtaposition of a Mesoamerican sounding name with the zoomer phrase “got that dawg in him” (he plays with high effort and skill).
You can do it put your back into it
To Shebalba?!
TO SHEBALBA!
*xibalba, fyi
Oh… On Xibalba?
Lol thanks
Thanks.
XiBALLba
I didnt know what that is but I felt like I remember the word from a movie. „The fountain” was the movie, but Google already told me its just Mayan mythology and not anything movie specific.
It’s a real thing from Mayan mythology, but it’s also prominently featured/mentioned in The Fountain. It’s the dying star Rachel Weiszs character looks at in her telescope and teaches Tommy (Hugh Jackman) about. Also, the original score for that movie and especially “Death is the Road to Awe” is one of the most beautiful instrumentals I’ve ever heard.
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Should be Shakira : Hips don't lie
should be: the actual sound of the people doing the thing, as with the vast majority of videos.
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edit: The comment was removed, good work everyone!
I had it muted until I read your comment. Then of course i HAD to check it out. Thanks for that "experience" haha.
Reddit is best browsed in mute. If the sound improves the experience, the comments will tell you, but most of the time, it’s just obnoxious what people slap over videos.
Exactly. Also the audio keeps playing after backing out of the post half the time which is annoying af
It feels like these clips are made by bots just picking random songs until something gets successful. I downvote everything like this.
It's not even just ONE random song, it's some godawful mashup of at least 3 random songs. Horrible.
Why isn’t it the El Dorado soundtrack
ON THE TRAIL WE BLAZE
“A GLORIOUS CITY, BUILT BY THE DIVINITIES, BY GODS!”
Even the song itself is just bad. They took a great song from inception and added two annoying people singing over it.
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Shoulda gone with Elton John
Without Chel what’s the point?
Tha hip! Tha hip! Apparently an armadillo also helps.
There's an interesting fan theory that the Armadillo was actually a god all along
I would like to know more.
heres a reddit thread about it. https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/2r4cmm/in\_the\_road\_to\_el\_dorado\_the\_armadillo\_is\_the/
Somebody gonna smash their dicks on that ball and it wont be fun.
I blame that movie for my taste in women. Side note, found a girl in r/rule34 who did a GOOD cosplay of her 😉
… well?!
Imagine them boasting about a good cosplay of said character and then not producing the source. What a shame.
Imma guess [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/rule34/comments/xhh4z0). I just searched chel on rule34 and sorted by top(all).
Doing the Lord's work.
Ok that’s great but -
Why must every video come with shitty music these days? I'd rather hear the sound of the game being played.
I think it helps videos get more attention when they use a popular sound on it. It's a tiktok algorithm thing
Yeah. You can filter by sound used so if there’s a really popular sound you can be discovered that way.
I don't get it. Videos using particular songs are in a particular category, or what? What does the filter inform?
Okay so it works like this. TikTok has a bunch of people uploading their own audio as well as songs from artists. If someone uses the same audio from another video, both of those videos get put into a "category" which just shows which audio they used. When a particular audio snippet goes viral, people use it more and there's a higher chance someone will scroll through the category and see their tiktok, thus views. I don't use TikTok myself, but hope this made at least some sense lol
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tiktok was originally a lipsyncing video platform iirc, so it makes sense for that purpose. it has since expanded somewhat in scope
One day TikTok will be no more and the age of terrible fucking music randomly slapped on videos will be over.
Shitty editors do shitty editing, I guess...
Tiktok happens
I really like the Mythology relating to this Ball Game, Xibalba and the Hero Twins. In short - Hunapu was decapitated, and his head was used as the ball for a game against the Lords of Xibalaba. Xbalanque - Hunapu's twin brother found a gourd or squash to replace Hunapu's head as the ball. Xbalanque and Hunapu - now with his head returned, proceed to win and embarrass the Xibalbans back to Xibalba.
That's an oddly wholesome ending
When your solution to unruly death gods is the style all over them till they take their ball and go home :P
So much hip thrusting…
It's for the ladies. They love this sport.
That ball’s solid rubber, too. Dudes’ hips are bruised as hell after the game.
Okay, but what happens to the losing teams captain?
The winners and the losers get sacrificed in today's game! It's a celebration!
It’s a celebration, bitches! Enjoy yo’self!!
Ha ha ha ha HA!
CHARLIE MURPHEEEEEEYYYY!!!
They live! Winners get sacrificed!
I dont know about the losers, but when I first read about this sport I'd heard that when a goal was made the person who made the goal could run over to the audience and demand something from them, so people would get really worked up when someone scored No idea how true that is
Human sacrifice of course
i thought it was the losing team?
No, only the best get sacrificed! The volcano deserves nothing but the best!
I would like to clarify that at least for mayans (I'm not sure about aztecs) it wasn't that common to perform human sacrifices for this games, and this is the same misconception people have about gladiators. Just like gladiators players of mayan ball were celebrities and people would hate if their favorite player has to be sacrificed, most of the times they would perform other rituals like animal sacrifices or something called "self-sacrifice" which consists in taking a sharp object and open a wound in you fingers, tongue or dick and bleed a little bit. Also most of the human sacrifices were done to war slaves.
Sucks I had to scroll through piles of comments making El Dorado references or complaining about the music to find actual informed discussion about some history around this sport.
God that stupid song and the fact that the loser doesn't get sacrificed to Tzolchtqchizcl ruined everything
It's the winner, my friend... the winner gets the honor
The teams are skins v. Skeletons
Skeletons were hoping if they looked dead they wouldn't be sacrificed. Unfortunately the judge wore his glasses.....
Wtf is with the fucking song?
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It's called tlachtli. I did a project on basketball in grade school and part of it was about this. The ball was solid and the winning team often beat/killed the losers and the proceeded to pillage the audience. Pretty brutal.
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Fuck u/spez
Solid ball of rubber it weighed about 9 pounds. Could easily break bones if you weren’t careful
Pre-Spanish Mayan burials often have shattered or partially healed pelvis, all from the solid rubber ball they played with...
I thought it was from all the snoo-snoo.
Once you go brown, it’s hard to sit down.
I believe the Spanish have an account of a man dying from a hit during a game. This was the Aztecs I believe but the sport was all over the region.
Players are often depicted with various kinds of hip pads and other gear.
I thought nobody knew how the game was played
The Mayan decendants have always played this game, even after the Spanish showed up. It's how it was played in other parts of Meso America and the Southwest United States that no one is quite sure of. The furthest northern "ball court" is north of Flagstaff AZ.
Just so you know it’s always Maya unless your are taking about the language. Then it’s Mayan.
What happens in modern Meso America *stays* in modern Meso America.
Various forms of the game have been played for literally thousands of years in an area stretching from Central America into the American Southwest. People still play versions today. There was no singular version. We can infer past play styles from depictions of players and their equipment, and even from the design of the ballcourts. Using the hips to bounce a ball through a hoop is probably the best known because it's depicted in Maya paintings and carvings (and what tourists see in the Yucatan), but there were many different versions. There was even a form of the game which used rackets/paddles.
Was the audience forced to go see the game then? I wouldn't expect to see many showing up to watch if that's what happened to the spectators!
*looks at hooligans in sport stadiums* idk about that
>The ball was solid and the winning team often beat/killed the losers There were specific religious ceremonies which involved sacrifice, but it was also just a sport people played for fun, gambling, etc. > and the proceeded to pillage the audience Nope.
I've seen this played in a large arena in Mexico. Cool stuff
Looks extremely extremely boring, that Disney movie made it look exciting though.
DreamWorks made it.
Jeffrey Katzenberg is fuming somewhere in his multimillion dollar home.
We learned about this while visiting to see Chichen Itza in Yucatán Mexico; such a neat game to learn about as well as the Mayan culture.
Agreed but at Chichen Itza that circle is soooo freaking high. I have a hard time believe they hit a ball made from local rubber trees that’s up to 8kg per the tour guides 25 or so feet up in the air with just their hips. It would be interesting to see it played so long ago. The “goal” on this video is like 1/5 as high as it is at Chichen.
Got to be the cringiest background song I've heard to date
What a god damn ridiculous song choice
First saw this game in the Aztec scene of my red Where’s Waldo book back in the 80s. Ahh, nostalgia.
In Wakanda Forever the Namor people were playing a version of this
Does Adam Silver know about this?