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Xibalba (Mayan pronunciation: [ʃiɓalˈɓa]),
roughly translated as "place of fright", is the name of the
underworld (in K'iche': Mitnal) in Maya mythology...
- that is also the
world of the dead. As a
ruler over the
world of the dead (
Metnal or Xibalba), the prin****l
death god
corresponds to the
Aztec deity Mictlāntēcutli...
- main god of relationships. A god of
earthquakes and
death who
lived in
Metnal.
Goddess of the bees. An
eclipse deity. The god of thunder.
Brother of Cakulha...
- Pellumawida, Degin, Wenuleufu,
Ngullchenmaiwe Maya
mythology Xibalba or
Metnal Melanesian mythology (includes Fijian) Bulu, Burotu, Murimuria, Nabagatai...
-
double concept of the afterlife:
Evildoers descended into an
underworld (
metnal) to be
tormented there (a view
still held by the 20th-century Lacandons)...
- all the universe,
constantly fighting the
forces of dark
emperor Asura of
Metnal and his evil god, the
Master of Shadows, with the help of his
numerous friends...
