Hero Twins
deity earth Maya single tradition · 3
Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #1065 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 1500 CE
- Attested period
- 0 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Documented in the 16th-century Popol Vuh.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Maize God, Maize Mountain, Tonsured Maize God
- manifests as
- maize plants
- enemy of
- One Death, Seven Death, Hun-Came, Vucub-Came, Vucub-Caquix
- child of
- Hun-Hunahpu
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (3)
Source passages
“In this theory, the Tonsured Maize God rising from a turtle carapace (the 'tomb' of the earth) is Hun Hunahpu resurrected, while the flanking Hero Twins are viewed as his sons rather than his coevals.”
#33177 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“According to the 16th-century Popol Vuh, the Hero Twins have maize plants as alter egos and humanity was created from maize.”
#33932 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat