Hun Hunahpu "One Hunahpu" (pronounced [hunhunaxˈpu]) is a figure of Late Postclassic Maya mythology whose name connects him to the XXth day of the day...
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Maya Hero Twins (redirect from Hunahpu)
Maya Ballgame, Hun Hunahpu (lit. One-Hunahpu) and Vucub Hunahpu (lit. Seven-Hunahpu) were defeated and executed as a result. Hun-Hunahpu's head was put...
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List of Maya gods and supernatural beings (redirect from Hunahpu Utiu)
underworld (Xibalba) who, along with Vucub-Came "Seven-Death", killed Hun Hunahpu. They were defeated by the latter's sons the Hero Twins. One of the two...
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Popol Vuh (redirect from Hunahpu-Gutch)
of The Hero Twins, Hun Hunahpu and Vucub Hunahpu, sons of Xmucane and Xpiacoc, are murdered at a ball game in Xibalba. Hun Hunahpu's head is placed in...
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hero myth on ceramics, chief amongst these Hunahpu, Xbalanque, and the Howler Monkey brothers (Hun Batz and Hun Choven). This initiated a tendency among...
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Maya death gods (redirect from Hun-ahau)
The Maya death gods (also Ah Puch, Ah Cimih, Ah Cizin, Hun Ahau, Kimi, or Yum Kimil) known by a variety of names, are two basic types of death gods who...
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in the ballcourt. Hun Hunahpu is decapitated and his head hung in a fruit tree, which bears the first calabash gourds. Hun Hunahpu's head spits into the...
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Maya maize god (redirect from Hun-Nal-Ye)
corresponds to the father of the hero twins in the Popol Vuh called Hun-Hunahpu. However, this once generally accepted identification has also been contested...
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translation of the names of two characters in the Popol Vuh, Hun-Hunahpu and Vucub-Hunahpu ("One-Hunter" and "Seven-Hunter"). All tracks composed by Florian...
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calabash tree where the Lords of Xibalba had displayed the severed head of Hun Hunahpu, whom they had sacrificed. Upon arriving she was curious as to the strange...
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in the Maya culture. Scholars call him God A. To the Yucatán Mayas he was Hun-Came and Vucub-Came.[clarification needed] He also has similarities to Mictlāntēcutli...
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Postclassic Kʼicheʼ kingdom. Deities recorded in the Popul Vuh include Hun Hunahpu, believed by some to be the Kʼicheʼ maize god, and a triad of deities...
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apparently connected to Daylight.) The Jaguar Twin Hero, companion to Hun-Ahpu (or Hun-Ajaw) and thus corresponding to Xbalanque in the much later Popol Vuh...
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religious, historical and cultural account of the K'iche' Maya. When Hun Hunahpu, father of the Maya Hero Twins, was killed by the lords of the Underworld...
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or, perhaps, maize. At other times, the king, represented by the hero Hunahpu, is sacrificing his own blood in front of directional trees (murals of...
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Xbaquiyalo is a Mayan deity. She was the wife of Hun-Hunahpú, and mother to the Monkey Twins, Hun Batz and Hun Chouén. It is hypothesized that she is descended...
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1,300-year-old nine-inch-tall plaster head statue indicating a young Hun Hunahpu, the Maya's mythological maize god. The figure's semi-shaved haircut...
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the Wabanaki hero Glooscap. Hunahpu and Xbalanque, the Maya Hero Twins, were conceived when the severed head of Hun Hunahpu spat in the hand of their mother...
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Chirakan-Ixmucane Ek Chuaj Goddess I God L Hero Twins Howler monkey gods Huay Chivo Hun Hunahpu Huracan Itzamna Ixchel Ixpiyacoc Ixtab K'awiil Kinich Ahau Kukulkan Maize...
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rain). Mythologically, she has been compared to the underworldly wife of Hun-Hunahpu, Xquic, in the Quichean Popol Vuh, and to the wife of the deer-hunting...
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1,300-year-old nine-inch-tall plaster head statue indicating a young Hun Hunahpu, the Maya's mythological maize god. The figure's semi-shaved haircut...
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Chirakan-Ixmucane Ek Chuaj Goddess I God L Hero Twins Howler monkey gods Huay Chivo Hun Hunahpu Huracan Itzamna Ixchel Ixpiyacoc Ixtab K'awiil Kinich Ahau Kukulkan Maize...
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Chirakan-Ixmucane Ek Chuaj Goddess I God L Hero Twins Howler monkey gods Huay Chivo Hun Hunahpu Huracan Itzamna Ixchel Ixpiyacoc Ixtab K'awiil Kinich Ahau Kukulkan Maize...
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head inserted between the legs of a large bird holds the severed arm of Hunahpu. The episode has also been connected to Izapa's stela 2, where two small...
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Chirakan-Ixmucane Ek Chuaj Goddess I God L Hero Twins Howler monkey gods Huay Chivo Hun Hunahpu Huracan Itzamna Ixchel Ixpiyacoc Ixtab K'awiil Kinich Ahau Kukulkan Maize...
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1,300-year-old nine-inch-tall plaster head statue indicating a young Hun Hunahpu, the Maya's mythological maize god. 7 – Archaeologists announced the...
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Chirakan-Ixmucane Ek Chuaj Goddess I God L Hero Twins Howler monkey gods Huay Chivo Hun Hunahpu Huracan Itzamna Ixchel Ixpiyacoc Ixtab K'awiil Kinich Ahau Kukulkan Maize...
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Vallis Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer — Hunahpu Valles Hunahpu, one of the mythological Maya Hero Twins 2019-05-30 · WGPSN Kupe...
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98219 Hunahpú IAU new 2019 Honduran proposal; one of the Maya Hero Twins who became the Sun in K'iche' Maya mythology. // Hercules HAT-P-2 Hunor IAU new...
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the Late Postclassic and may represent Qʼuqʼumatz in the act of carrying Hunahpu, the youthful avatar of the sun god Tohil, across the sky. The god's association...
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