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Guatemalan folktales

Two Maya twins holding a glowing ball facing the Lords of Death in the underworld, from a Kiche Maya folktale in Guatemala.

The Hero Twins and the Lords of Death

In the earliest days, when the world was young and the stars were still being arranged in the sky, there lived two brothers named Hunahpú and Xbalanqué. They were known throughout the lands for their courage and cleverness, the sons of Hun Hunahpú, a great ballplayer who had once faced the Lords of Death in the dark underworld of Xibalba
Parchment style artwork of phantom black dog in Ciudad Vieja, Guatemalan folktale.

The Black Dog of Alvarado

Alvarado is a name that still carries weight in the ruins of Ciudad Vieja, where stone foundations lie half-swallowed by earth and memory. Long after Pedro de Alvarado’s campaigns ended and his life was lost during the Mixtón War in 1541, people began to speak of something that returned in

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