Tales from this people include a symbolic marriage with the earth and their creation story orders animals, clay, and wood as coming before mankind.
Tales from this people include a symbolic marriage with the earth and their creation story orders animals, clay, and wood as coming before mankind. Their death deities include Hunhau (wan-WAH). Their underworld, called Xibalba (shee-BALL-bah), was visited by two twins important to their mythology. Those twins had earlier slain the deity Seven Macaw. That tale of Hunaphu (WAN-ah-pwa) and Xbalanque (SHEE-BA-lan-KAY) appears, among other sources, in the Popol Vuh. Centered around Copan and Tikal, for 10 points, name this Mesoamerican culture that was responsible for the construction of Chichen Itza.
Tales from this people include a symbolic marriage with the earth and their creation story orders animals, clay, and wood as coming before mankind.
the {Mayans}