Traditional Games and Beliefs: A Cultural Journey

• Popular Catholicism set of beliefs and practices expressed on many systematization and cultural constructions

· Official Catholicism: centripetal force that centralizes, without achieving uniformity in jail, is monocultural and aims to review ethical and ritual. Hierarchy.
· Popular Catholicism: centrifugal force, diversifies the Christian, has a relative autonomy in their traditions, without losing its multicultural membership reference católica.Democrático
· Playing. Do something with joy and with the sole purpose of entertaining or fun
· Mesopotamia: The game is considered the oldest in the world is that of Ur, and is named after it was discovered in Ur, in 1926
· The Egyptians: They created one of the earliest games made known: the Senet, board is to remove your opponent's pieces before following a series of rules
· Greece: In Greece, was born the concept of toy: Athirmata, which in turn meant amulet.
· Olympics: they were religious festivals, cultural and sporting events held in ancient Greece
• The swing or Eora: The Eora was a very popular game in Greece, especially for children
· Romans: The game was developed around the Colosseum and the Circus, In the case of children playing marbles was a very pop
· Aztecs: many sports played with balls, as was the Tlachtli, a ritual considered the ancestor of basketball
• The Wrist: The wrist has always been associated mainly with the child, representing some of the tasks associated with motherhood
• The Go: invented in China was the Go which is a strategy game on a board that requires great skill and training
• The Kaleidoscope: a game is very attractive to children due to their shapes and colors that vary continuously rotate
· Oreste Plath; Chilean folklorist and researcher who dedicated himself to collect photos, data and folk stories from every corner of the country. Thanks to him we owe a comprehensive research on children's games, in his book Origin and folklore of the games in Chile
• The emboque: The game is to throw up the hood and look strung, when it falls on the tip of the tree: In Argentina it is called bearing in Colombia bowling, in Brazil and Peru bilboque Bump.
• The spin: hardwood toy has an iron tip in which a cord is wound, and in doing so to throw that ball.

• The Pallalla: The idea is to play with pebbles, more or less uniform, have them in hand, throw it up and catch the fly with the palm of your hand down without any fall
• Mapuche Games:

The Chueca or Palin:
Degrees to both sides, armed with a club each individual bent on one end, with which it fought a wooden ball that had to be thrown into the attacking Guaillpacatun 20 or 40 children, which, placed in a row circular, rapidly spinning to roll over, the strongest resisted, and when tired of one side, turned the contrary Peucoton, was locking up a child in a circle holding hands more, to prevent others rescued or escaped