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    Maya Hero Twins (redirect from Xbalanque)
    to have been preserved in its entirety. Called Hunahpu [hunaxˈpu] and Xbalanque [ʃɓalaŋˈke] in the Kʼicheʼ language, the Twins have also been identified...
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    includes the Mayan creation myth, the exploits of the Hero Twins Hunahpú and Xbalanqué, and a chronicle of the Kʼicheʼ people. The name "Popol Vuh" translates...
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    and of the deities of disease and death by the Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque. Of considerable interest is also the parallel narrative of a maize hero...
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    Ludger Kresnik in Tales of Xillia 2, Phog from Xenoblade Chronicles X and Xbalanque from Smite. Grelle has one younger brother. In 2017, Grelle married Joanna...
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    are the bat-like spirits encountered by the Maya Hero Twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque during their trials in the underworld of Xibalba. The twins had to spend...
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  • destroy them, and they both would revel in the destruction. The Hero Twins Xbalanque and Hunahphu stumbled upon him wrecking mountains, and told him of a great...
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    Xibalba. She is noted for being the mother of the Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque and is sometimes considered to be the Maya goddess associated with the...
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  • history and, in particular, on the legend of the Hero Twins Hunahpú and Xbalanqué to add greater depth to the backstories and to fully flesh out the characters...
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    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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    Twin Hero, companion to Hun-Ahpu (or Hun-Ajaw) and thus corresponding to Xbalanque in the much later Popol Vuh Twin myth, has patches of jaguar skin stuck...
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  • Igaluk God Tarqiup Inua Goddess Hanwi[citation needed] Goddess Awilix; Xbalanque was their mortal (male) incarnation Maya moon goddess Goddess Huitaca...
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    is one of the Maya gods of bees and honey. One of the Maya Hero Twins, Xbalanque, is also associated with bees and beekeeping under the name or aspect...
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    November 5, 2019 "Itzam-Ye" 9 October 29, 2019 Co-written with Elgin James "Xbalanque" 1 September 3, 2019 2018 1 "Cuervo/Tz'ikb'ull" 10 November 6, 2018 "Serpiente/Chikchan"...
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    focused on the war leaders and the weapons. The jaguar-spotted War Twin Xbalanque counted as a war deity in the Alta Verapaz; preceding a campaign, rituals...
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    of narrative events. It may be noted that the Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque, although stated to have changed into Sun and Moon, are never shown assimilated...
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    a passing goddess who conceives and bears the Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque. The Hero Twins eventually find the ballgame equipment in their father's...
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  • Written by Original air date Prod. code U.S. viewers (millions) 11 1 "Xbalanque" Kevin Dowling Kurt Sutter September 3, 2019 (2019-09-03) 2WBD01 1.39...
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  • described and enacted. By tradition, the twin brothers Hun Hunaphu and Xbalanque used their time on earth to play ball. Through the noise of the game aroused...
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    attributes or garments are underworld gods" (Benson 1998:64). One such god is Xbalanque, one of the Maya Hero Twins who descended to the underworld, and whose...
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  • particularly for being the mother of the Maya Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque, she is sometimes considered to be the Maya goddess associated with the...
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  • Heracles and Iphicles (Greek) Iasus and Pelasgus (Greek) Hunahpu and Xbalanque (Maya) Hypnos/Somnus and Thanatos/Mors, Letum (Greek) - (Roman) Lakshmana...
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    Anishinabe hero Nanabozho or the Wabanaki hero Glooscap. Hunahpu and Xbalanque, the Maya Hero Twins, were conceived when the severed head of Hun Hunahpu...
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  • into the heavens as the open cluster known as the Pleiades. Hunahpu and Xbalanque, the two divine Hero Twins, decided to exact revenge upon Zipacna for...
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    Braakhuis, Xbalanque's Canoe. The Origin of Poison in Qʼeqchiʼ-Mayan Hummingbird Myth. Anthropos 100-1 (2005): 173-191. H.E.M. Braakhuis, Xbalanque's Marriage:...
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    cosmogonical myths: the creation of the world and falling of Hunahpu and Xbalanque into Xibalba which is the underworld of the Maya. Outside of Mesoamerica...
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    Societies, by Eugenia W. Herbert, p. 226. Braakhuis, H.E.M. (2005). "Xbalanque's Canoe. The Origin of Poison in Q'eqchi'-Mayan Hummingbird Myth". Anthropos...
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  • Written by Original air date Prod. code U.S. viewers (millions) 11 1 "Xbalanque" Kevin Dowling Kurt Sutter September 3, 2019 (2019-09-03) 2WBD01 1.39...
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  • (2:24) 7. "Los Dias Sin Dias" (2:52) 8. "XQuiQ" (2:43) 9. "Hunnahpu and Xbalanque" (3:29)" Smolens 11:28 10. "Spreading The Disease" Murray, Smolens, G...
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  • presented. Cosmovision is depicted in the hero stories of Hunahpu and Xbalanque, One Hunahpu, and Seven Hunahpu, as well as the story concerning the conception...
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    mask on the lower right panel is a depiction of the rising sun and of Xbalanque, who is identified by a "k'in"(sun) glyph on his cheeks. He is flanked...
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