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The samples of a ball were found in archeological excavations of 1,5-thousand-year old inuit sites. The Eskimo ball was a symbol of the Sun, the image of the Universe for the indigenous people of northern Siberia, Alaska and Canada.
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In earlier times the ball had basically sacral meaning, and people started to play the ball with arrival of a new hunting season.
The appearance of the ball symbolized the beginning of the new year. The game with ball was most important in ceremonies. To throw a ball in game to each other still symbolizes a message of goodwill and warm feelings, and the sound that the little stones make inside of a ball means repel bad luck and evil.
The remarkable Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392), a planetary nebula (Hubble photo, NASA)
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