Hunahpu - Drums of Atlantis

The Dual Cataclysm That Ended a Civilization

Mayan Hero Twins: Hunahpu and Xbalanque fix a dual disaster—provoked by earlier folly.

The House of Bats: In the Popol Vuh, the hero twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque meet Camazotz in the underworld during one of their trials.

In the story Hunahpu loses his head to Camazotz.

Popol Vuh – Creation story

The Hero Twins were conceived, when their mother, Ixkik’, spoke to the decapitated head of their father, Hun Hunahpu, who spit on her hand from a cacao tree.

Hun Hunahpu had been killed by the Lords of Xibalbá, the Underworld.

Mayas

The deities in the Popol Vuh include Hun Hunahpu, whom some see as the Kʼicheʼ maize god, and a group of gods led by the Kʼicheʼ patron Tohil.