Maya Hero Twins

myth:maya_hero_twins

Hunahpu and Xbalanque, the Hero Twins of the Popol Vuh, are summoned down into Xibalba, the underworld, where they outplay and outwit the lords of death at the ball-game and in their deadly houses, defeat them, and rise into the sky as the sun and the moon. — Maya myth (Popol Vuh)