Mayan Ball Game

West Wynd

playing at ball like in the Popol Vuh the hero twins’ father, Hun Hunahpu faced his brother known as Vucub in a court on the edge of the underworld
the lords of the underworld of Xibalba 1 Death and 7 Death sent out owls for these 2 brothers to meet and follow to one final game in the place of fear
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if you win you’ll be the richest king of all and if you lose we’ll use your head as the ball and since the gods demand a human sacrifice we’ll cut out your still-beating heart with a knife throw your body down the steps it won’t take long to be hacked up and eaten by the ravenous throng high atop the temples our priests are drenched in blood in hopes our sacrifice will please all the gods
no mortal survives a Xibalban game in the ball the gods conceal a blade up a tree Hunahpu’s skull was placed when Xquic stopped to chat the skull spit in her hands thus were the hero twins conceived and though not very well received their foster grandma they deceived while a rat went to get their dad’s toys for them
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playing ball with the gods who killed their dad the twins realized that they’d been had “don’t use the sharp ball” was their demand so in a fair game they lost by intent just so they could pass all the gods’ weird tests and then succeed on impossible quests astounding the gods until they confessed and demand for sacrifice would relent
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