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

manifests as
maize plants
child of
Hun-Hunahpu

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Sources

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