The Archive · 1923

Sacrifices to Rain God

One particularly interesting spot is a great stadium, enclosed by walls 25 feet thick, and as large as a football field, where a game not unlike basket-ball was once played in public, In the later days of the city it became the Mecca of the land, and the religious rites) included a cult (in times of drought) for drowning young women in a huge well as sacrifices to the rain god.

All sorts of offerings of carven jade and copper and pottery and bells, as well as bones, have been found within this well, which is 180 feet' across and 70 feet deep.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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