Popol Vuh
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Popol Vuh is a text recounting the mythology and history of the Kʼicheʼ people of Guatemala, one of the Maya peoples who also inhabit the Mexican states of Chiapas, Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana Roo,
The oldest surviving written account of Popol Vuh (ms c. 1701 by Francisco Ximénez, O.P.)
Tonsured Maize God and Spotted Hero Twin
Empiezan las historias
Empiezan las historias
Xibalba
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Xibalba, roughly translated as "place of fright", is the Kʼicheʼ name of the Underworld in Maya mythology, ruled by the Maya death gods and their helpers. In 16th-century Verapaz, the entrance to Xiba
Popol Vuh
…pair of twins, Hun Batz and Hun Chuen. In the Popol Vuh, the first set of twins, Hun-Hunahpú and Vucub-Hanahpú were invited to the Mayan Underworld, Xibalba, to play a ballgame with the Xibalban lords. In the Underworld the twins faced many trials filled with trickery; eventually they fail and are put to…
Vessel depicting the action of aggressive wayob and sacrificers
Noblewoman entangled by K'awiil's serpent leg