﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!--RSS Genrated: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:33:38 GMT--><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Multiverse</title><link>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Default.aspx?TabId=725&amp;ctl=rss&amp;mid=2173&amp;galleryid=77&amp;language=en-US</link><atom:link href="https%3a%2f%2fwww.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu%2fDefault.aspx%3fTabId%3d725%26ctl%3drss%26mid%3d2173%26galleryid%3d77%26language%3den-US" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><description>RSS document</description><item><title><![CDATA[]]></title><link>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Calendar-in-the-Sky/Images/Photos/Places/Chichen-Itza/Ball-Court/emodule/2173/eitem/454</link><enclosure type="image/jpg" url="https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Portals/0/EasyGalleryImages/24/77/100_1143.JPG" length="1736336"></enclosure><description><![CDATA[A view of the ball court.  (Image Credit: Gil Mendez). ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:09:25 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Calendar-in-the-Sky/Images/Photos/Places/Chichen-Itza/Ball-Court/emodule/2173/eitem/454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[]]></title><link>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Calendar-in-the-Sky/Images/Photos/Places/Chichen-Itza/Ball-Court/emodule/2173/eitem/455</link><enclosure type="image/jpg" url="https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Portals/0/EasyGalleryImages/24/77/100_1144.JPG" length="2117573"></enclosure><description><![CDATA[A view of the ball court.  (Image Credit: Gil Mendez). ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:09:25 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Calendar-in-the-Sky/Images/Photos/Places/Chichen-Itza/Ball-Court/emodule/2173/eitem/455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[]]></title><link>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Calendar-in-the-Sky/Images/Photos/Places/Chichen-Itza/Ball-Court/emodule/2173/eitem/456</link><enclosure type="image/jpg" url="https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Portals/0/EasyGalleryImages/24/77/2101a_northtemple.JPG" length="5804438"></enclosure><description><![CDATA[The North Temple rises above the northern wall of the ballcourt's playing field. It is a one-room temple with a vaulted roof, archaeologically important for its extensive relief carvings. It is the first temple to use a sloping elevation on its front facade, giving way to a vertical wall. Also architecturally important are the elevated jambs decorated with figures, square panels exhibiting the effigy of the plumed serpent god, and the painted vaulting. The North Temple has two open entrances, facing east and west, and a central stairway, facing south to the Great Ballcourt.  (Image Credit: Jim Spadaccini, Ideum) ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:09:26 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Calendar-in-the-Sky/Images/Photos/Places/Chichen-Itza/Ball-Court/emodule/2173/eitem/456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[]]></title><link>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Calendar-in-the-Sky/Images/Photos/Places/Chichen-Itza/Ball-Court/emodule/2173/eitem/457</link><enclosure type="image/jpg" url="https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Portals/0/EasyGalleryImages/24/77/2101b_northtemple.JPG" length="5219953"></enclosure><description><![CDATA[The North Temple of the Great Ballcourt is thought to have been built during the period of the Itza domination at Chichen, around 900AD. The carvings on the back wall depict different scenes in the ascent, domination, death, and descent into the Underworld of Kukulcan, god of the sky and the ruler among the Itza nobles who brought his name to earth and ruled at Chichen.  (Image Credit: Jim Spadaccini, Ideum) ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:09:27 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Calendar-in-the-Sky/Images/Photos/Places/Chichen-Itza/Ball-Court/emodule/2173/eitem/457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[]]></title><link>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Calendar-in-the-Sky/Images/Photos/Places/Chichen-Itza/Ball-Court/emodule/2173/eitem/458</link><enclosure type="image/jpg" url="https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Portals/0/EasyGalleryImages/24/77/2101c_northtemple.JPG" length="5948660"></enclosure><description><![CDATA[Scenes on the back wall of the North Temple depict the lord and ruler Kukulkan, Mayan counterpart to the central Mexican plumed deity Quetzalcoatl, in various stages of life and death: sitting on a jaguar throne flanked by warriors; as a lord-priest surrounded by seven dignitaries with butterfly-shaped pectorals on either side; and then engulfed by a serpent as he descends, after death, into the underworld. Here he is protected by the serpent and guarded by the deities of the four cardinal points, the Bacabs.  (Image Credit: Jim Spadaccini, Ideum) ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:09:28 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Calendar-in-the-Sky/Images/Photos/Places/Chichen-Itza/Ball-Court/emodule/2173/eitem/458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Juego de Pelotas ]]></title><link>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Calendar-in-the-Sky/Images/Photos/Places/Chichen-Itza/Ball-Court/emodule/2173/eitem/459</link><enclosure type="image/jpg" url="https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Portals/0/EasyGalleryImages/24/77/2107a_ballcourt.JPG" length="2074305"></enclosure><description><![CDATA[The Great Ballcourt of Chichen Itza is the largest and most splendid of all the Mesoamerican ballcourts, of which there are many. The walls which flank its long sides measure 272 feet long and 27 feet high. The ballcourt spans 99 feet across. The small hoops mounted high on the walls were used for scoring the game; relief carvings adorn the walls and the hoops themselves, as well as the temples on the north and south ends.  (Image Credit: Troy Cline, NASA/GSFC) ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:09:28 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Calendar-in-the-Sky/Images/Photos/Places/Chichen-Itza/Ball-Court/emodule/2173/eitem/459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[]]></title><link>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Calendar-in-the-Sky/Images/Photos/Places/Chichen-Itza/Ball-Court/emodule/2173/eitem/460</link><enclosure type="image/jpg" url="https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Portals/0/EasyGalleryImages/24/77/2107b_ballcourt.JPG" length="1715743"></enclosure><description><![CDATA[]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:09:28 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Calendar-in-the-Sky/Images/Photos/Places/Chichen-Itza/Ball-Court/emodule/2173/eitem/460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[]]></title><link>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Calendar-in-the-Sky/Images/Photos/Places/Chichen-Itza/Ball-Court/emodule/2173/eitem/461</link><enclosure type="image/jpg" url="https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Portals/0/EasyGalleryImages/24/77/2107c_ballcourt.JPG" length="4822827"></enclosure><description><![CDATA[]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:09:29 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Calendar-in-the-Sky/Images/Photos/Places/Chichen-Itza/Ball-Court/emodule/2173/eitem/461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[]]></title><link>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Calendar-in-the-Sky/Images/Photos/Places/Chichen-Itza/Ball-Court/emodule/2173/eitem/462</link><enclosure type="image/jpg" url="https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Portals/0/EasyGalleryImages/24/77/3102a_northtemple.jpg" length="4251192"></enclosure><description><![CDATA[The North Temple sits above the north wall of the Great Ballcourt and overlooks the playing field. Along the right side of the photograph is the east wall of the court,  a high vertical wall that runs the length of the ballcourt and mirrors the wall on the west side. Opposite the North Temple, some 550 feet across the field, is a similar one-room South Temple.  (Image Credit: Jim Spadaccini, Ideum)  ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:09:30 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Calendar-in-the-Sky/Images/Photos/Places/Chichen-Itza/Ball-Court/emodule/2173/eitem/462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[]]></title><link>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Calendar-in-the-Sky/Images/Photos/Places/Chichen-Itza/Ball-Court/emodule/2173/eitem/463</link><enclosure type="image/jpg" url="https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Portals/0/EasyGalleryImages/24/77/3102b_northtemple.jpg" length="5485448"></enclosure><description><![CDATA[The North Temple of the Great Ballcourt is esteemed for its pioneering architectural elements such as the sloping facade, and for the extensive relief carvings that adorn its interior and have remained largely intact. They show a creation scene, depictions of the ruler Kukulcan in various phases of life and death, and, curiosly, the presence of a bearded man for whom the temple is often called the Temple of the Bearded Man.  (Image Credit: Jim Spadaccini,  Ideum) ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:09:31 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Calendar-in-the-Sky/Images/Photos/Places/Chichen-Itza/Ball-Court/emodule/2173/eitem/463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[]]></title><link>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Calendar-in-the-Sky/Images/Photos/Places/Chichen-Itza/Ball-Court/emodule/2173/eitem/464</link><enclosure type="image/jpg" url="https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Portals/0/EasyGalleryImages/24/77/3103a_ballcourt.jpg" length="5092663"></enclosure><description><![CDATA[]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:09:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Calendar-in-the-Sky/Images/Photos/Places/Chichen-Itza/Ball-Court/emodule/2173/eitem/464</guid></item></channel></rss>