Xquic was able to pass the test by invoking two female daybearers related to corn, plucking the corn silk from the ear, which transformed into corn, thus filling the net sack. Xmucane was at first angry at Xquic’s success only later to be impressed and convinced about the truth of Xquic’s story. When six months had passed and her pregnancy obvious, she was questioned regarding the father. Question 4 options: She welcomes Xquic from her first arrival, but when the hero-twins are born she does not accept them.
She honestly answered that she had known no man's face (the Mayan equivalent of the biblical "know", and a play on the fact that a skull has no face). She tests Xquic to see if she truly is her daughter-in-law; then, although Xquic passes the test, when hero-twins are born she rejects them at first. They were unable to see through the deceit, and were subsequently tricked into accepting burned sacrifices that were not genuine. Knowing her sons to be dead, Xmucane demanded proof of the fetuses' lineage, and devised a test for the maiden. If she could go into the garden and return with a sack full of corn she would be accepted. The messengers who had been sent to escort her far from the city and to sacrifice her had pity on the woman, and fashioned a false heart out of tree sap to return to the Lords. She was at first wary of them and their mother, Xquic , and ordered them out of her house when they were yet infants, but she would come to accept them almost as her own sons, raising and caring for them. Xquic sought the protection of Xmucane, the mother of Hun Hunahpu, identifying herself as the woman's daughter-in-law. Hun Hunahpu and his twin brother Vucub Hunahpu were invited down into the Maya underworld (Xibalba) to play the Mesoamerican ballgame by the Xibalban lords One and Seven Death. If she could go into the garden and return with a sack full of corn she would be accepted.
The fetuses she carried were declared to be bastards, and the Lords of Xibalba sentenced her to be sacrificed in exile. Knowing her sons to be dead, Xmucane demanded proof of the fetuses' lineage, and devised a test for the maiden. Xmucane herself also plays an integral role in the development of the Maya Hero Twins. The messengers who had been sent to escort her far from the city and to sacrifice her had pity on the woman, and fashioned a false heart out of tree sap to return to the Lords. She welcomes Xquic from her first arrival, but when the hero-twins are born she does not accept them. How does Xmucane treat Xquic at first and then the hero-twins when they are born? She honestly answered that she had known no man's face (the Mayan equivalent of the biblical "know", and a play on the fact that a skull has no face). After being accepted into the household and giving birth to her sons alone "at the mountain", Xquic's significance in the story is greatly diminished, and while she is mentioned again in a few places in short conversations her role as an active player in the Xquic Sought refuge with Xmucane, who sent her to gather a sack full of corn to prove that she was the mother of Xmucane's grandchildren Found only one stalk of corn in a cornfield so she invoked two female daybearers to let her pluck the silk of the maize which turned into ears of corn They were unable to see through the deceit, and were subsequently tricked into accepting burned sacrifices that were not genuine. The first pair of divine hero twins were the Maize Twins, 1 Hunter "Hun Hunahpu" and 7 Hunter "Vuqub Hunahpu," and they lived during the second world. Xmucane responded angrily to Xquic's success, but after seeing the impression her net had left on the ground in the garden, was convinced of the truth of Xquic's story. • Blood Moon is banished from the underworld, finds refuge with Xmucane, gives birth to the twins who are enticed back to the underworld • Seven Macaw: a false god, his vanity is punished by death, believe the macaw looks the way it does because the hero twins plucked all the feathers from around its eyes The maiden gave birth to Hero Twins in the mountain and only now does her story begin. When six months had passed and her pregnancy obvious, she was questioned regarding the father. Xquic was accepted. She tests Xquic to see if she truly is her daughter-in-law; then, although Xquic passes the test, when hero-twins are born she rejects them at first. The fetuses she carried were declared to be bastards, and the Lords of Xibalba sentenced her to be sacrificed in exile. Xquic sought the protection of Xmucane, the mother of Hun Hunahpu, identifying herself as the woman's daughter-in-law. After being accepted into the household and giving birth to her sons alone "at the mountain", Xquic's significance in the story is greatly diminished, and while she is mentioned again in a few places in short conversations her role as an active player in the