Xbalanque’s Family Tree

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Family

• Hun Hunahpu(parent),Xquic(parent),Hunahpu(sibling)— Consort · Miraculous

  Hun-Hunahpu's severed skull magically impregnated Xquic in Xibalba, conceiving the Hero Twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque as told in the Popol Vuh.

• Xmucane(parent),Hunahpu(sibling)— Adopted

  Xmucane raised her grandsons Hunahpu and Xbalanque in her home after their mother Xquic arrived pregnant from Xibalba, serving as their guardian and provider through childhood.

Allied with

• Hunahpu,Pacam,Xulu

  Xulu and Pacam, seers of Xibalba, secretly conspired with Hunahpu and Xbalanque by advising the death lords to grind the twins' bones and throw them in the river, enabling their resurrection.

Rules over

• Xibalba

  After defeating the supreme death lords, Hunahpu and Xbalanque established a new order over Xibalba, decreeing that its lords would receive only imperfect offerings and hold power only over the wicked.

Member of

• The Hero Twins

  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.

Associated with

• Hun Hunahpu,Hunahpu,Vucub-Hunahpu

  Hunahpu and Xbalanque descended to Xibalba to avenge their father Hun-Hunahpu and uncle Vucub-Hunahpu, who had been lured, defeated, and sacrificed by the death lords a generation earlier.

• Hun Hunahpu,Hunahpu,Xmucane

  Hunahpu and Xbalanque found their father Hun-Hunahpu's ballgame equipment hidden in the rafters of Xmucane's house. When they began playing, the noise summoned the Lords of Xibalba, repeating the pattern that had doomed their father.

• Hunahpu,Xmucane,Xquic

  Xquic fled Xibalba while pregnant with Hunahpu and Xbalanque, then proved her legitimacy to Xmucane by miraculously harvesting corn from a single plant, as told in the Popol Vuh.

• Hunahpu,The 400 Boys,Zipacna

  Hunahpu and Xbalanque killed Zipacna to avenge the 400 Boys, whom Zipacna had murdered after they tried to trap him in a pit during the construction of their great house.

• Hunahpu,Owl Messengers of Xibalba

  The Owl Messengers of Xibalba delivered the death lords' summons to Hunahpu and Xbalanque, commanding them to appear in the underworld for a ballgame, as told in the Popol Vuh.

• Hunahpu,Huracan

  Huracan, Heart of Sky, directed Hunahpu and Xbalanque to defeat the arrogant Vucub-Caquix, who falsely claimed to be the sun and moon, as told in the Popol Vuh.

• Hunahpu

  Hunahpu and Xbalanque leapt willingly into Xibalba's stone oven, allowing the death lords to grind their bones and scatter them in the river, only to resurrect five days later as wandering fish-men and masked dancers who dazzled and ultimately destroyed the lords of the dead.