Comments by "Auntie M" (@auntiem873) on "Archaeologists Find 400 Vessels Containing Human Ashes" video.

That makes more sense to me. The other stories I have heard is that they would use the heads of their enemies as balls in their sports. Well, if they cremated them and put their ashes into the mold with the rubber. Then yes they would be turning their enemies into balls to be played with. I just could imagine them kicking or throwing just the skull. It wouldn’t roll right, it would not move well enough to be used in a sport.
20
@ocelotl7416 - I heard. You just didn’t understand the rest of it cause you were so caught up in that. I’m saying the the stories I was taught in school and so was my Son years later, that Aztec’s would use their enemies heads as balls in their sports. I knew as a kid and as an Adult that a skull does not make a good ball. It does not bounce or roll they way you want for a sport. But, if it is put into rubber it would. See, Now the story makes sense. I can now see the Aztec’s doing it. The bone is incased in the rubber or the bones crunched and put into the rubber. Doesn’t matter, how they did it. But putting it in rubber was left out of the story of how they used their enemies as balls.
8
@ocelotl7416 - true. But it still makes the stories more plausible. Also keep in mind cannibalism, isn’t just because your hungry. It’s represents taking your enemies strength. So by using your enemy as a play thing. It can symbolize victory over your enemy and by using them as the ball, everyone watching in the stadium can see that symbolism.
3