Xquic
Xquic is a daughter of one of the lords of Xibalba. She was impregnated by the saliva of Hun Hunahpu's head, which had been suspended in a trophy tree and changed to a calabash. She fled the Underworld and conceived the Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 200 CE
- Attested period
- 200 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Documented in the early-colonial Popol Vuh manuscript.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Kʼat, Po 'Moon', Hun, Xibalba, One Howler Monkey, One Artisan, Goddess I, Hun Batz, Hun-Chowen, Vucub-Hunahpu
- consort of
- Hun-Hunahpu, Hun-Hunahpu
- child of
- Cuchumaquic
- enemy of
- Lords of Xibalba
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Its saliva (i.e., the juice of the calabash) impregnated Xquic, a daughter of one of the lords of Xibalba. She fled the Underworld and conceived the Twins. After defeating the Underworld lords, the twins recovered the remains of their father and their father's brother, but could not resuscitate them.”
#33175 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Hunahpu and his brother were conceived when their mother Xquic, daughter of one of the lords of Xibalba, spoke with the severed head of their father Hun. The skull spat upon the maiden's hand, which caused the twins to be conceived in her womb. Xquic sought out Hun Hunahpu's mother”
#33241 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Mythologically, she has been compared to the underworldly wife of Hun-Hunahpu, Xquic, in the Quichean Popol Vuh.”
#33813 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat