Hun Came and Vucub Came rule Xibalba as co-equal supreme lords in the Popol Vuh, jointly summoning challengers, presiding over the trials, and commanding the subordinate death lords who administer disease and destruction.
Hun Came and Vucub Came ordered Xquic's execution after her father reported her pregnancy, but she escaped their judgment by tricking the Owl Messengers with a false heart, as told in the Popol Vuh.
Hun Came and Vucub Came killed Hun-Hunahpu and Vucub-Hunahpu after defeating them in the ballgame in Xibalba, as told in the Popol Vuh.
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.
Hun Came and Vucub Came, as supreme lords of Xibalba, commanded Camazotz and the other trial house guardians to test and destroy those who entered the underworld in the Popol Vuh.
The ten subordinate Lords of Xibalba served beneath the supreme rulers Hun Came and Vucub Came, each pair administering a specific form of death and disease within the underworld as described in the Popol Vuh.
After the Hero Twins allowed themselves to be killed, Hun Came and Vucub Came summoned their seers Xulu and Pacam to divine what to do with the bodies — and the two deliberately advised grinding the bones and scattering them in the river, knowing this would enable the twins' resurrection.
The Hero Twins sent Xan the mosquito ahead to bite each Lord of Xibalba in turn, and when the insect stung Hun Came and Vucub Came the supreme death lords cried out, prompting their subordinates to speak their names — intelligence that gave the twins the advantage their father had lacked.
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