Xpiyacoc and Xmucane, the grandparent deities, aided the Hero Twins against Vucub-Caquix by disguising themselves as wandering healers and extracting the false sun's jeweled eyes and teeth while pretending to cure his wounded jaw.
Hun Batz and Hun Chouen, jealous half-brothers of the Hero Twins, forced them into servitude. The twins took revenge by luring them up a growing tree and transforming them into monkeys, who became patrons of artists and musicians.
The Hero Twins descended to Xibalba to avenge their father, outwitted the Lords of Xibalba through every trial, and ultimately destroyed Hun Came and Vucub Came through feigned resurrection magic.
The Hero Twins confronted Vucub-Caquix, the arrogant false sun who claimed to be both sun and moon, shooting him from a tree with their blowguns and ultimately stripping him of his jeweled eyes and teeth with the help of the grandparent deities Xpiyacoc and Xmucane.
The Hero Twins performed a feigned sacrifice, dismembering and resurrecting themselves before the awed Lords of Xibalba, then slew Hun Came and Vucub Came when the lords eagerly volunteered for the same trick, ending the tyranny of death's rulers.
The Hero Twins trapped Cabrakan by feeding him a bird roasted with poisoned earth, weakening the earthquake giant until he could no longer stand, then bound and buried him beneath a mountain.
The Hero Twins shot Vucub-Caquix from a tree with their blowguns, shattering his jaw, then enlisted Xpiyacoc and Xmucane to pose as healers who extracted the false sun's jeweled eyes and teeth, leaving him to perish stripped of his glory.
The Hero Twins lured Zipacna into a canyon with the promise of a giant crab, then brought a mountain crashing down upon him, turning the boastful crocodilian giant to stone beneath the earth.
Hunahpu and Xbalanque form the Hero Twins, the central heroes of the Popol Vuh who defeated the Lords of Xibalba and became the sun and moon.
After defeating the Lords of Xibalba, the Hero Twins found their father Hun Hunahpu's buried remains at the ballcourt and spoke to his reviving head, restoring the Maize God so he could rise again from the cracked earth like corn sprouting from the ground.
Xan served the collective mission of the Hero Twins, whose descent into Xibalba to defeat the death lords depended on the intelligence the mosquito gathered about their adversaries' identities.
The Hero Twins journeyed through Xibalba's lethal test chambers — Dark House, Cold House, Jaguar House, Bat House, Razor House, and Hot House — surviving each through magical ingenuity before defeating its lords.
Xmucane, the divine grandmother, raised the Hero Twins in her house after their mother Xquic arrived from Xibalba. She kept their father's ballgame equipment, which the twins later discovered and used.
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