Guatemala · Highlands
Mothers of maize and the Hero Twins from the Popol Vuh.
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goddess · K'iche' Maya / Guatemala
Blood Moon Maiden
In the Popol Vuh, Xquic, daughter of an underworld lord, became pregnant by the calabash tree and fled to earth, where she bore the Hero Twins and proved herself by gathering maize.
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goddess · K'iche' Maya / Guatemala
Grandmother of Day and Light
Xmucane is the divine grandmother and daykeeper of the K’iche’ Maya Popol Vuh, a work preserved in a sixteenth-century alphabetic manuscript from much older oral traditions. She participates in divination with maize kernels, raises the Hero Twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque, and later grinds yellow and white maize to prepare the substance from which successful human beings are formed.
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