The Maya Hero Twins are the central figures of a narrative included within the colonial Kʼicheʼ document called Popol Vuh, and constituting the oldest...
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Classic Maya Ceramics. New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Coe, Michael D. (1989), The Hero Twins: Myth and Image. In: J. Kerr ed., The Maya Vase Book...
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the Hero Twins. One of the two stepbrothers of the Hero Twins, one of the Howler Monkey Gods and patron of the arts. The father of the Maya Hero Twins Ixbalanque...
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Cabrakan (category Maya gods)
a minor character in the Popol Vuh, where the Maya Hero Twins defeat him. He has been called the Maya equivalent to Tepēyōllōtl. Both Cabrakan and his...
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The Hero Twins (or God Boys) are recurring characters from the mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. The specifics of each myth vary from...
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Xibalba (redirect from Maya underworld)
University. Archived from the original on May 2, 2007. mayas.mrdonn.org/herotwins.html "The Story of Hero Twins - Mayan Collection | Myths and Legends | EP03 |...
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Hun Hunahpu (category Maya mythology and religion)
source, Hun Hunahpu is the father of the Maya Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque. He is also the father of the twins' half-brothers, the patrons of artisans...
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Xmucane and Xpiacoc (category Maya deities)
Maya creation myth. They are usually mentioned together, although Xmucane seems to be alone during most of the interactions with the Maya Hero Twins,...
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Watanabe no Tsuna Watatsumi Yamato Takeru Iktomi Gukumatz Kukulkan Maya Hero Twins Maya maize god Enkidu Gilgamesh Ziusudra Bochica Changing Woman The Diyin...
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Vucub Caquix (category Maya deities)
meaning 'seven-Macaw') is the name of a bird demon defeated by the Hero Twins of a Kʼicheʼ-Maya myth preserved in an 18th-century document, entitled ʼPopol Vuhʼ...
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