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Hun-Hunahpu

deity underworld Maya single tradition · 6

Hun-Hunahpu is the father of the Popol Vuh hero brothers Hunahpu and Xbalanque in Maya mythology. Scholar Karl Taube equated him with the so-called 'tonsured maize god' depicted in Maya iconography.

↻ synthesized from 6 sources

When

First attested
300 BCE
Attested period
-300 – 2020
Historical notes
Equated with the tonsured maize god by Karl Taube following Coe's 1970s ceramic identifications.

Relationships

co occurs with
Lord of Xibalbá, First Father, One-Maize-revealed, Wakah-Chan, Cuchumaquic, Xmucane, Ixtoj, Ixqʼanil, Kʼat, Ah mun, Zac uac nal, Uac chuaac nal, Tonsured God, Hun-Nal-Ye, Ixim, Nal, Blood Moon, Blood Gatherer, Owl Messengers, Guardians of Food, Earth Deity, Hun Choven, Tonsured Maize God, Vucub-Caquix
parent of
Hun Chouén, Hun Batz, Hunahpu, Xbalanque, Hun Batz, Hunahpu, Xbalanque, Hun-Chowen, Hero Twins, One-Monkey, One-Artisan
consort of
Xbaquiyalo, Ixquic, Xquic, Egret Woman
enemy of
Lords of Xibalba, lords of the Underworld (Xibalba), One-Death, Seven-Death
sibling of
Vucub-Hunahpu, Vucub Hunahpu
child of
Ixmucane, Xmucane
manifested by
Tonsured Maize God

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Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (6)
  1. Hun Hunahpu
  2. Maya Hero Twins
  3. Maya mythology
  4. Xbaquiyalo
  5. Xquic
  6. Maya maize god

Source passages

“Karl Taube, who equated the so-called "tonsured maize god" with Hun-Hunahpu, the father of the Popol Vuh hero brothers”

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