Xquic’s Family Tree

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Family

• Hun Hunahpu(spouse),Hunahpu(child),Xbalanque(child)— 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.

• Cuchumaquic(parent)

  Cuchumaquic, a subordinate lord of Xibalba, was the father of Xquic, the Blood Maiden who defied him and the death lords by fleeing to the surface world in the Popol Vuh.

Enemy of

• Hun Came,Vucub Came

  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.

Associated with

• Hunahpu,Xbalanque,Xmucane

  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.

• Hun Hunahpu

  Xquic visited the calabash tree where Hun-Hunahpu's severed skull hung, and the skull spoke to her and spit into her palm, magically conceiving the Hero Twins as told in the Popol Vuh.

• Owl Messengers of Xibalba

  The Owl Messengers of Xibalba were sent to execute Xquic, but she persuaded them to spare her by providing a substitute heart made from croton tree sap, as told in the Popol Vuh.

• Xibalba

  Xquic, daughter of a Xibalba lord, defied the underworld by visiting Hun-Hunahpu's skull on the calabash tree and fled to the surface world while pregnant with the Hero Twins, as told in the Popol Vuh.