Four brothers who held up the sky from cardinal points were called Bacab in this mythical system.
Four brothers who held up the sky from cardinal points were called Bacab in this mythical system. Those brothers were the offspring of a creator deity of this mythos, sometimes associated with Hunab Ku, named Itzamna. This system's central text details the defeat of Vucub-Came, aka Seven Death, in the traditional ballgame by Hunahpu and Xbalanque (sh-ba-lan-kay). The Hero Twins are featured in what myth system, FTP, the central text of which is the Popul Vuh and which was centered in a Yucatan culture?
Four brothers who held up the sky from cardinal points were called Bacab in this mythical system.
Mayan mythology