Editing Maya mythology (section)

===Marriage with the Earth===
This mythological type defines the relationship between humankind and the game and crops. An ancestral hero - Xbalanque in a Kekchi tradition - changes into a hummingbird to woo the daughter of an Earth God while she is weaving, or to abduct her; the hero's wife is finally transformed into the game, bees, snakes and insects, or the maize. If the hero gets the upper hand, he becomes the Sun, his wife the Moon.<ref>Braakhuis 2010; Danien 2004: 37-44; Thompson 1970: 363-366;</ref> A moralistic Tzotzil version has a man rewarded with a daughter of the Rain Deity, only to get divorced and lose her again.<ref>Guiteras Holmes 1961: 191-193</ref>