Maya myth · "Popol Vuh"
Ixquic & Hun Hunahpu
With child by a skull of the underworld
In the "Popol Vuh," the maiden Ixquic is made pregnant when the skull of Hun Hunahpu, hung in a tree of the underworld, spits into her hand; she flees Xibalba and gives birth to the Hero Twins who will defeat death.
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