the game of ball in Popul Vuh
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- 5) Underworld/Xibalba
- 1) Its so cold!4) Thanks!
- 2) Here is the opposite!
- 3) Here is a stick with resin and some cigars to pass the night. I want them back by tommorow!
- 7) Reborn of the hero twins
- 8)The childhood of Hunahphu and Xbalanque
- According to the Quiche people, the underworld is an inhospitable place, too cold or too hot for humans. While the twins were waiting to be accommodated one of the lords of the underworld gives them a stick with resin and cigars and tells them that they will have to return them the next day or else there will be consequences.
- 9) The vengeance of the hero brothers.
- Having difficulty finding food, the mother of the twins asks for help from the gods of agriculture who, upon hearing her request, multiply the corn in the fields. While the animals help the mother carry the corn home,
- 10) Ritual
- Because his half-brothers were jealous of the hero brothers and saw them as rivals, the mother takes them to the mountains, and over time the twins grow and develop even better ball game skills than before.
- 11) Misfortune
- Hunahphu and Xbalanque trick their brothers by lying to them that they would hunt birds on top of a tree. By using their magical powers the brothers lengthen the trunk making it dangerously high which is also the origin of how they became monkeys.
- The monkey mother seeing this is outraged and asks the hero brothers to please reverse the spell. The brothers agree, saying that the only way is to play the flute without anybody laughing and they will dance down on their own.
- The mother, seeing her children dancing like monkeys, laughs and unfortunately, the spell does not work and the brothers transform in some beasts of the forest.
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