Komican - If you lived in the southern Incan Empire 1000 years ago you probably played this game.
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- The category of board games called "Predator-versus-Prey" has many members around the world. Games reflect the lives of the players, their challenges and aspirations. These games usually pit a predator, or a small group of them, against a large herd of livestock or natural dens of prey.
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Apologies to the Mapuche people for my mispronunciation. It's supposed to be "Mah-Poo-Chay".
Komicon (or Komikan) is from the native words for "Eats Everything" - is a game about a big cat (cougar, puma, jaguar) and a herd of llamas, sheep, goats, or puppies. (Yes, I said "puppies.') When the Spanish explorer arrived in western South America, the locals were playing this game in several forms.
Very similar games are found in the history of every civilization on every continent (but Antarctica, of course). Which one is your favorite?
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Expat in Chile here. This was a pleasant surprise! BTW it's pronounced "MAH - POO - CHAY".
Thanks for the language lesson. Apologies to all the Mapuche people! Thanks for watching.
I find it interesting that the alquerque pattern shows up so much. Just like it’s interesting that the bear game from Rome uses almost the same board for watermelon chess.
great video as always, love whenever you delve into games from nations long past, people always focus on the wars, kings and empires of history, and forget that people played games for as long as civilization was a thing
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There is a Tibenham game with Goats and a Leopard.
How come these games are all over the world,
as well as stick dice??
'Cause people. (There are books on the subject.) It's the same with 9-hole games to make patterns, the use of pawns to represent people and animals, and common "binary randomizers" other than sticks. Anthropologists say it's human nature, coupled with the restrictions of 2-dimensional surfaces to play on. Since the dawn of husbandry the predators have tried to eat the herds. (I have been surprised to not find an ancient "shepherd versus prey" game wherein the human tries to defend its herd.) Likewise the "hunt" games are ubiquitous. It's a similar situation with kicking and throwing and hitting objects at targets and goals. Everywhere humans can be found there is some form of game like that. 'Cause people.