Editing Maya mythology (section)

===Creation of Humankind: Monkey Brothers===
On several vases, the Monkey Brothers of the ''Popol Vuh'', Hun-Batz ('One Howler Monkey') and Hun-Choven, are shown as [[Howler monkey gods]] writing books and sculpting human heads.<ref>Coe 1977</ref> Hieroglyphically<ref>Beliaev and Davletshin 2014</ref> and metaphorically,<ref>Braakhuis 1987</ref> the acts of writing and sculpting can refer to the creation of human beings.<ref>see the K717 vase</ref> A myth transmitted by [[Bartolomé de las Casas|Las Casas]] puts these acts in their proper, transcendent perspective by describing how previous efforts at creation failed, until two artisan brothers, Hun-Ahan and Hun-Cheven, received permission to create humankind and, indeed, the present universe, through their artifice.<ref>Braakhuis 1987; cf. Chinchilla Mazariegos 2017: 162</ref>