Editing Xibalba (section)

==Inhabitants==

[[File:Jarron Maya 2 - Ixquic y los Señores de Xibalbá.jpg|thumb|upright=1.75|left|Noblewoman entangled by [[K'awiil]]'s serpent leg]]

Xibalba is described in the ''[[Popol Vuh]]'' as a court below the surface of the [[Earth]] associated with death and with twelve gods or powerful rulers known as the Lords of Xibalba. The first among the [[Maya death gods]] ruling Xibalba were Hun-Came ("One Death") and Vucub-Came ("Seven Death"), though Hun-Came is the senior of the two.<ref name="PV5"/><ref name="PV6"/>

The remaining ten Lords are often referred to as demons and are given commission and domain over various forms of human suffering: to cause sickness, [[starvation]], fear, destitution, pain, and ultimately death.<ref name="NACS"/> These Lords all work in pairs: Xiquiripat ("Flying Scab") and Cuchumaquic ("Gathered Blood"), who sicken people's blood; Ahalpuh ("Pus Demon") and Ahalgana ("Jaundice Demon"), who cause people's bodies to swell up; Chamiabac ("Bone Staff") and Chamiaholom ("Skull Staff"), who turn dead bodies into skeletons; Ahalmez ("Sweepings Demon") and Ahaltocob ("Stabbing Demon"), who hide in the unswept areas of people's houses and stab them to death; and Xic ("Wing") and Patan ("Packstrap"), who cause people to die coughing up blood while out walking on a road.<ref name="PV5">Christenson, Allen J. (trans.) (2007) ''Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya. The Great Classic of Central American Spirituality, Translated from the Original Maya Text''</ref><ref name="PV6">Recinos, Adrian; Goetz, Delia; Morley, S.G. (trans.) (1991) ''Popol Vuh: Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiche Maya (Civilization of American Indian)''
<!-- David Goetze is erroneously listed as a co-author in several places, but not in the book--></ref> The remaining residents of Xibalba are thought to have fallen under the dominion of one of these Lords, going about the face of the Earth to carry out their listed duties.