section of relief carving of ball game player. The ruler, Bird Jaguar IV, dressed as a ball-player, is depicted about to strike his captive enemy, Jewel Skull, tied up inside a gigantic bounding ball, up the sloping steps. He appears to be offering his captive to the sun itself (the gigantic ball) as it rises to illuminate his royal palace. The Lacandones make pilgramages to the ruins of Yaxchilan (they call them Chixokla) to perform rituals in the buildings thought to be homes of various Lacandon gods. At least since the turn of the century, Lacandon god pots and clay bowls have been found abandoned among the buildings at this site. The imposing Temple 33 is thought to be the home of Hachakyum, "Our True Lord", principal solar deity and creator of human beings.