Meaning of patolli | Babel Free

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A board game, similar to pachisi, played by the Aztecs.

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“There is also the resemblance between the Hindu game of pachesi and the Mexica patolli, so close as to be virtually identical.”

“Mesoamericans played a game called patolli, which has been likened to parcheesi.[…]Post-Conquest accounts also indicate patolli had religious meaning, and calendrical, numerological, cosmological, and astronomical symbolism determined the rules of play.”

“Patolli is a Mesoamerican game so similar to South Asian pachisi that many anthropologists considered it evidence of a precolonial contact between the peoples of the Old and New Worlds (Figure 5.2).”

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