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	Hun-Apu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Maya mythology, Hun-Apu or Hunahpu was a son of Hun Hunahpu and Blood Moon, and an older twin to Xbalanque; the two were the Maya Hero Twins.
		Hunahpu and his brother were conceived in an unusual fashion, when their mother Blood Moon spoke with the decapitated head of their father Hun Hunahpu.
		Hunahpu was immortalized as the Venus, the morning star, while Xbalanque became the full moon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hun-Apu (2863 words)

	Ixbalanque - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Maya mythology, Ixbalanque or Xbalanque was originally a son of Hun Hunahpu and the virgin Blood Moon.
		Xbalanque and his brother Hunahpu were quite inseperable in their lives, together outwitting arrogant gods and the lords of the Mayan underworld, Xibalba.
		Although it is not explicitly stated in the Popol Vuh, Hunahpu seems to have been the dominant one among the brothers, often the one to do the talking and the planning, although Xbalanque was not merely a hapless sidekick.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ixbalanque (211 words)

	Hun-Apu - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Hun-Apu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The pair were apparantly well favored by the greater Mayan gods, and over their lifetimes had a long career of defeating their enemies through trickery and great powers.
		Hunahpu and Xbalanque obliged, leading Cabrakan toward the non-existant mountain.
		Though his original head was used as the ball for the next day's game, the twins were able to surrepetitiously substitute a squash or a gourd for the ball, retrieving Hunahpu's real head and resulting in an embarassing defeat for the Xibalbans.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Hun-Apu.html (2862 words)

	Maya mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After the creation story, the Popol Vuh tells of the struggles of the legendary hero twins, Hunahpu and Ixbalanque, in defeating the lords of Xibalba, the underworld.
		He and his children were arrogant and the divine twins Hunahpu and Ixbalangue killed Vucub Caquix and Zipacna, along with Vucub Caquix's co-regent in the underworld, Hun Came, as revenge for the beheading of their father Hun Hunahpu.
		They are also the parents of Hun Hunahpu (one hunahpu) and Vucub Hunahpu (seven hunahpu).
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hun_Hunahpu (2194 words)

	Popol Vuh (Mayan) The Council Book
		Hunahpu and Xbalanque are the protagonists of the first of the two hero cycles (corresponding to Part Two in the present translation), and their enemies are a father and his two sons, all of them pretenders to lordly power over the affairs of the earth.
		Hunahpu and Xbalanque next take on Zipacna, the elder of Seven Macaw's two sons, a crocodilian monster who claims to be the maker of mountains.
		When Hunahpu hits it back to the Xibalbans with the yoke that rides on his hips, it falls to the court and reveals the weapon that was hidden inside it.
	www.tphta.ws /TPH_POPL.HTM (19882 words)

	Das Rattenfängerinhaus / Stultus Fabula Villa / Quicumque...
		Hunahpu and Xbalanque then wanted to se if dawn had come so Hunahpu stuck his head out of the end of the blowgun to see, and was decapitated.
		Hunahpu and Xbalanque saw Hun-Hunahpu and Vucub-Hunahpu in Xibalba and, having avenged their deaths against the Lords of the underworld, Hunahpu and Xbalanque decreed that all noblemen and civilized vassals would remember the names of their fathers and never be forgotten.
		Hunahpu and Xbalanque then raised into heaven where one was given the sun, the other the moon, and there they dwelt in heaven.
	dierattenfaengerin.multiply.com /journal/item/65 (2935 words)

	Creative Minds Mythology Ezine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Hunahpu and Xbalanque knew that regardless of all the tests they had passed, that the Lords intended to sacrifice them.
		Hunahpu danced and during his dance he was asked to sacrifice the Lords' dog, which he did.
		According to the Maya creation story, the POPOL VUH, once the Hero Twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque finished with their defeat of the Lords of Death and resurrected their father Hun-Hunahpu the Maize God in the ballcourt of Xibalba, they ascended to the heavens.
	www.create.org /myth/mayanmyths.htm (5596 words)

	A Mayan Pantheon
		Hunahpu is, among other things, God of evening, at the commencement of which He restores to the sky those stars Zipacna has swept away.
		Camazotz hung Hun Hunahpu's head on a Calabash tree, whereupon the tree grew heavy with miraculous fruit.
		A giant with emerald teeth who was fought and ultimately defeated by Hun Hunahpu and Vukubahpu in one of a series of adventures those heroes experience.
	web.raex.com /~obsidian/Mayapan.html (3966 words)

	Encyclopedia Mythica: Hunahpu and Ixbalanque
		Hunahpu and Ixbalanque, the Maya legend of the Sun and the Moon.
		Hunahpu and Ixbalanque were the sons of Hun Hunahpu.
		Their bodies were broken and the head of Hun Hunahpu was put in a dead tree.
	www.pantheon.org /areas/folklore/folktales/articles/hunahpu.html (370 words)

	Heavenly Minds \| Main / HeavenlyTwins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The heavenly twins of the Quiche Mayan pantheon are Hunahpu, who comes to represent the sun, and Xbalanque, who comes to represent the moon.
		The two are the children of a strange union between the corpses of One and Seven Hunahpu and Blood Moon, an underworld goddess.
		Hunahpu was immortalized as the sun while Xbalanque became the full moon.
	www.innocence.com /games/taci/Main/HeavenlyTwins (2820 words)

	Hero Twins
		In the lore of the Quiché Maya, One and Seven Hunahpu were the first generation of hero twins.
		Hunahpu decided to peek outside the blowgun and see if it was morning yet.
		Instead of throwing Xbalanque and Hunahpu over a cliff or hanging their bodies in a tree, they ground their bones on a grinding stone and sprinkled them in the river.
	www.mythweb.com /teachers/why/other/hero_twins.html (1524 words)

	Hun Hunahpu
		In Mayan mythology, Hun Hunahpu was the father of Ixbalanque and Hun-Apu by a virgin.
		He was accidentally beheaded in Xibalba, the underworld, by the rulers of Xibalba, Hun Came and Vucub Caquix.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hu/Hun_Hunahpu.html (53 words)

	Myth Made Flesh - The Maya Ballgame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The twins' father and his own twin brother (Hun Hunahpu and Vucub Hunahpu) play the ballgame incessantly on a ballcourt that is said to be on earth but also to be the path to Xibalbá - the underworld.
		Hun Hunahpu and Vucub Hunahpu face a series of tests on their way to the underworld ballcourt, finally being given cigars and torches and being told to burn them in the House of Gloom and yet have them intact by the dawn.
		Wondering out loud whether to pick fruit from the tree, she is surprised to hear Hun Hunahpu's decomposed head tell her not to, as the gourds are skulls.
	www.whitedragon.org.uk /articles/mayaball.php (2818 words)

	CLAS 3350 2
		The crab, devised by Hunahpu and Xbalanque, entices Zipacna under a mountain, where he is buried and turned to stone.
		Xpiyacoc and Xmucane beget One Hunahpu and Seven Hunahpu; One Hunahpu begets One Monkey and One Artisan.
		Prior to departure, Hunahpu and Xbalanque plant ears of corn in center of house.
	www2.tltc.ttu.edu /George/CLAS3350/Meeting6.htm (853 words)

	BROKEN WINDOWS
		The twins, Hunahpu and Xblanque, are clever enough not to lose against the lords of the underworld at a ball game, so they are sent to six different houses for six nights of challenges.
		Hunahpu is decapitated by a bat and his head is taken to the ball court to be used in the next game between the lords of the underworld.
		Since this is myth, Hunahpu is not dead though he is in the land of death and disease and he is headless.
	blogs.salon.com /0002967 (10764 words)

	Popul Vuh - The Origins and The Conclusion of Hunahpu and Xblanaque (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the flness, in the night, One Hunahpu and Seven Hunahpu were born to Xpiyacoc and Xmucane.
		And this One Hunahpu had two children, and the two were sons, the firstborn named One Monkey and the second named One Artisan.
		Hunahpu and Xbalanque made their plans overnight and arrived right at noon, and it was not obvious that they had a rat with them when they arrived.
	www.mythome.org /popul3.html (10827 words)

	Index of Enrique's Web Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the story the hero twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque descend to Xibalba, the Maya Underworld, to defeat the Lords of Death.
		There the Kamazotz, monstrous bats, snatch of the head of Hunahpu which then is captured by the Lords of Death.
		In the mean time Xbalanque gets the ball from Rabbit, puts it back on the body of Hunahpu, and announces that the ball had been found: the carved squash head.
	bama.ua.edu /~gomez002/rabbit.html (746 words)

	story 4
		She names them Hunahpu and Xbalanque and the twins grow up to become brilliant ballplayers, like their father.
		But, Hunahpu gets curious and sticks his head out to see if they are safe before the sun has risen and down swoops a bat and bites his head right off."
		Hunahpu then claimed his head from Rabbit and the twins tied the rest of the ballgames with the Lords of the Dead."
	students.ou.edu /A/Heather.G.Arnott-1/story_4.html (1228 words)

	Pantheon of Maya Gods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Huun Ajaw and Yax Baluun (Hunahpu and Xbalanque, Hero Twins) Cylinder Vessel Rollout, Maya, c.
		Although not to be confused with his father, Hun Hunahpu, the Maize God, Hunahpu the hero twin does share some characteristics with his progenitor.
		After their defeat of the Death God, the twins rose to the sky, where Hunahpu governed the realm of the sun and his brother the moon (or the inverted sun of nighttime and the underworld).
	www.lindakreft.com /hunahpu.html (156 words)

	poptwins.html
		Hun Hunahpu and Vucub Hunahpu are children of the creators.
		Xqiq, the daughter of one of the lords of Xibalba, violating a prohibition, visits the tree and is impregnated by the skull's saliva.
		An interval occurs during which the arrival of Xqiq at the home of Xmucane is described, and some events in the upbringing of Hunahpu and Xbalanque are related.
	www.bsu.edu /classes/magrath/STORYTIME/poptwins.html (826 words)

	HUNAHPU - Gods from Mayan Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		HUNAHPU: Not to be confused with HUN-HUNAHPU his father.
		So HUNAHPU is the Hunter, his dad HUN-HUNAHPU is the First Hunter, and his Hunting Uncle VUCUB-HUNAHPU obviously had a thing about sevens.
		After having amazing adventures in the Underworld, HUNAHPU was elevated to become the Moon God of Evening.
	www.godchecker.com /pantheon/mayan-mythology.php?deity=HUNAHPU (187 words)

	Welcome to Mythical Dreaming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		After a number of ordeals {during which Hunahpu had his head cut off by CAMAZOTZ, but was given a new one by a turtle), the death gods were defeated.
		It was destroyed by the hero twins, HUNAHPU AND XBALANQUE.
		The invading Spaniards were horrified at the number of human sacrifices made by the Aztecs The slaughter of 20,000 people at a time was not unknown.
	poeticdreaming.org /mythical/centralamerica.htm (280 words)

	Hun Came & Vucub Came - Demons, Demonology, and Evil in the Americas
		According to the Popol Vuh, one day, the twins, Hun Hunahpu and Vucub Hunahpu, were playing ball with Hun Hunahpu's sons, Hun Batz and Hun Chouen.
		The head of Hun Hunahpu spit into her hand as she reached for a piece of fruit and impregnated her.
		She then gave birth to the hero twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque, who would eventually defeat the death gods.
	www.deliriumsrealm.com /delirium/mythology/huncame.asp (539 words)

	Twins in mythology!
		The skull of Hun Hunahpu, which also possessed the spirit of Vucub Hunahpu, spit on her hand and caused her to become pregnant.
		On the final test, Hunahpu's head is taken off by a bat and taken to the Xibalban lords for them to use as a ball in a final match.
		The last trick they performed was by Xbalanque sacrificing Hunahpu, dismembering him, removing his heart, and then bringing his brother back to life again.
	www.sfu.ca /archaeology/museum/ndi/twinmyths.html (4894 words)

	Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		And this one Hunahpu had two children, and the two were sons, the first born named One Monkey and the second named One Artisan.
		And as for One Hunahpu and Seven Hunahpu, all they did was throw dice and play ball everyday.
		And when the Blood Woman came to the mother of One Monkey and One Artisan, her children were still in her belly, but it wasn't very long before the birth of Hunahpu and Xblanque as they were called.
	ksumail.kennesaw.edu /~tkeene/ogtMaya2text.htm (3735 words)

	CREATION ACCORDING TO THE MAYAN CIVILIZATION. Essay Sample. Free term papers for college students
		Hun Hunahpu's head was placed on a dead tree that came to life.
		Hunahpu and Ixbalanque killed Hun Came and Vucub Caquix to avenge their father's death (Eufraccio Internet).
		Hunahpu became the sun god and Ixbalanque a female moon deity.
	www.essaysample.com /essay/000913.html (1108 words)

	Hunahpu and Ixbalanque by Patricio Eufraccio Hunahpu and Ixbalanque, the Maya legend of the Sun and the Moon. To the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Hunahpu and Ixbalanque by Patricio Eufraccio Hunahpu and Ixbalanque, the Maya legend of the Sun and the Moon.
		Hunahpu were playing, the Lords of Hell, Hun Came and Vucub Caquix
		Hun Hunahpu was put in a dead tree.
	www.junos-horizon.com /documents/3040.html (302 words)

	POPOL VUH
		sons of Xpiyacoc and Xmucane (the diviners), one of whom (Hun Hunahpu) is the father of the hero
		loaded with skulls for fruit, and among the fruit was the head of Hunahpu, in skull form.
		to pick one of the fruits, and the skull of Hun Hunahpu spat in her hand.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/stross/ant322m_files/popolvuh.htm (1604 words)

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