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Secret Teachings of All Ages
American Indian Symbolism (19)
Following the admonitions of Hunhun-ahpu, the young girl returned to her home. Her father, Cuchumaquiq, later discovering that she was about to become a mother, questioned her concerning the father of her child. Xquiq replied that the child was begotten while she was gazing upon the head of Hunhun-ahpu in the calabash tree and that she had known no man. Cuchumaquiq, refusing to believe her story, at the instigation of the princes of Xibalba, demanded her heart in an urn. Led away by her executioners, Xquiq pleaded with them to spare her life, which they agreed to do, substituting for her heart the fruit of a certain tree (rubber) whose sap was red and of the consistency of blood. When the princes of Xibalba placed the supposed heart upon the coals of the altar to be consumed, they were all amazed by the perfume which rose therefrom, for they did not know that they were burning the fruit of a fragrant plant.
Popol Vuh
Part II, Chapter 3 (5)
After all of the above talking, the maiden returned directly to her home, having immediately conceived the sons in her belly by virtue of the spittle...
Popol Vuh
Part II, Chapter 2 (12)
Hun-Camé and Vucub-Camé looked in amazement at the fruit on the tree. The round fruit was everywhere; but they did not recognize the head of...
Popol Vuh
Part II, Chapter 3 (9)
The red sap gushing forth from the tree fell in the gourd and with it they made a ball which glistened and took the shape of a heart. The tree gave...
Popol Vuh
Part II, Chapter 3 (1)
THIS is the story of a maiden, the daughter of a lord named Cuchumaquic. A maiden, then, daughter of a lord heard this story. The name of the father...
Popol Vuh
Part II, Chapter 3 (6)
The four messengers took the gourd and set out carrying the young girl in their arms and also taking the knife of flint with which to sacrifice her....
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Part II, Chapter 4 (3)
I belong to Hun-Hunahpú. They live in what I carry, Hun-Hunahpú and Vucub-Hunahpú are not dead; they will return to show themselves clearly, my mother...
Popol Vuh
Part II, Chapter 4 (1)
Well, then, Hunbatz and Hunchouén were with their mother when the woman called Xquic arrived. When the woman Xquic came before the mother of Hunbatz...
Popol Vuh
Part II, Chapter 3 (10)
Let us see," exclaimed Hun-Camé. And grasping it with his fingers he raised it, the shell broke and the blood flowed bright red in color. "Stir up the...
Popol Vuh
Part II, Chapter 2 (11)
And having put the head in the tree, instantly the tree, which had never borne fruit before the head of Hun-Hunahpú was placed among its branches, was...
Popol Vuh
Part II, Chapter 5 (1)
Now we shall tell of the birth of Hunahpú and Xbalanqué. Here, then, we shall tell about their birth. When the day of their birth arrived, the girl...
Popol Vuh
Part II, Chapter 3 (3)
Then the skull which was among the branches of the tree spoke up and said: "What is it you wish? Those round objects which cover the branches of the...
Popol Vuh
Part II, Chapter 1 (1)
Now we shall also tell the name of the father of Hunahpú and Xbalanqué. We shall not tell his origin and we shall not tell the history of the birth...
Popol Vuh
Part II, Chapter 3 (4)
"Now my head has nothing on it any more, it is nothing but a skull without flesh. So are the heads of the great princes, the flesh is all which gives ...
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Part II, Chapter 6 (9)
Do you know, then, that the property of your parents Hun-Hunahpú and VucubHunahpú, as they were called, those who died in Xibalba, or rather the gear ...
Popol Vuh
Part II, Chapter 1 (8)
What the Lords of Xibalba coveted were the playing implements of HunHunahpú and Vucub-Hunahpú-their leather pads and rings and gloves and crown and ma...
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Part II, Chapter 2 (3)
The messengers of the lord have come to take us. 'They must come,' they said, according to the messengers. "We shall leave our ball here in pledge," t...
Popol Vuh
Part I, Chapter 6 (1)
Now we shall tell how the two youths shot their blowguns at Vucub-Caquix and how each one of those, who had become arrogant, was destroyed....
Popol Vuh
Part I, Chapter 5 (2)
Therefore, we shall try to shoot him with our blowgun when he is eating. We shall shoot him and make him sicken, and then that will be the end of his ...
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Part I, Chapter 6 (4)
Having thought it over, Hun-Hunahpú and Xbalanqué went to talk with an old man who had snow-white hair and with an old woman, really very old and...
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Part II, Chapter 3 (8)
Neither is your home here, nor must you let them force you to kill men. Later, in truth, the real criminals will be at your mercy and I will overcome ...
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