Editing Popol Vuh (section)

==Story of Hunahpú and Xbalanqué==
[[File:Hero Twins.JPG|225px|thumb|Tonsured Maize God and Spotted Hero Twin]]
Many versions of the [[legend]] of the [[Maya Hero Twins|Hero Twins]] Hunahpú and Xbalanqué circulated through the Maya peoples{{Citation needed|date=November 2017}}, but the story that survives was preserved by the [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] priest [[Francisco Ximénez]]<ref name="auto"/> who translated the document between 1700 and 1715.<ref>{{cite web|title=Popol Vuh Newberry|url=http://www.newberry.org/collection/research-guide/popol-vuh|website=www.newberry.org|publisher=The [[Newberry Library]]|access-date=3 November 2017|language=en}}</ref> Maya deities in the [[Post-classical history|Post-Classic]] codices differ from the earlier versions described in the [[Mesoamerican chronology|Early Classic]] period. In Mayan mythology Hunahpú and Xbalanqué are the second pair of twins out of three, preceded by [[Hun Hunahpu|Hun-Hunahpú]] and his brother Vucub-Hunahpú, and precursors to the third pair of twins, [[Howler monkey gods|Hun Batz and Hun Chuen]]. In the ''Popol Vuh'', the first set of twins, Hun-Hunahpú and Vucub-Hanahpú were invited to the Mayan Underworld, [[Xibalba]], to play a ballgame with the Xibalban lords. In the Underworld the twins faced many trials filled with trickery; eventually they fail and are put to death. The Hero Twins, Hunahpú and Xbalanqué, are magically conceived after the death of their father, Hun-Hunahpú, and in time they return to Xibalba to avenge the deaths of their father and uncle by defeating the Lords of the Underworld.