MYTHS AROUND THE WORLD 4.0

XIBALBA’S GATES
“BEHOLD THE GREAT AJAWAB KINGODM, WELCOME, WEARY
TRAVELER, WELCOME, THE DOORS ARE OPENED…”
CHOOSE A PATH… jUST ONE… RED, BLACk, WHITE OR YELLOW…
CHOOSE BEfORE THEY DO… YOU ARE STEPS AWAY fROM THE
great gathering hall of the dark lords from HELL…
The Popol Vuh describes this realm as “AH PUCH’S” (GReat
Dead and War Lord) underworld and trial place for
the brave heroes to put themselves to test; since, what
RESTED DEEP DOWN XIBALBA’S CAvES AND AND NOOkS WAS
fILLED WITH DARkNESS…
The sacred texts refer to a big and lonely hole, where
six great homesteads lied, each one with different jeopardies and challenges
foR THE HEROES TO CONSUMMATE, ENDING WITH THE OUTRIGHT CHALLENGE… the
five roads (mentioned formerly).
THE fIRST, WAS NAMED, “ THE DARk HOUSE”, WERE ONLY SHADOWS WERE ALLOW
to lurk around
“THE frost Liar” WAS HOME TO ICE AND EBON CHILL WIND
Jaguars ran, gambled and gathered in their own lair.
The gloomy household of the bats, was packed with hundreds of them
THE “kNIfE HOLD” HAD BEEN ALL COvERED UP WITH RAzOR-sharp blades.
And, the last one, kNOWN AS THE “HEAT HOUSE”, HARBORED THE vERY OWN
devil flames and blaze
Together with many other
hazards, such as Blood Rivers and
arduous stairways, the Mayan hell
place is still to this day, a lieu
where only a single pair of
mortals, the far-famed twins
Hunaphu and Xbalanque, have been
able to go through; culminating in
a ball game match, between them
AND THE DREAD LORDS “vUCUB CAME”
AND “HUN CAMé” (Seven deaths and
one death respectively