Hun-Hunahpú

Hun-Hunahpú, ‘One Hunahpú’, is a figure of K’iche’ Maya myth in the Popol Vuh, father of the Hero Twins Hunahpú and Xbalanqué. He and his brother Vucub-Hunahpú were tricked into the Dark House by the lords of Xibalba, the underworld, and sacrificed.

His head, hung in a tree, turned into a calabash, and its spittle made Xquic, a lord’s daughter, pregnant with the Twins. They beat the lords but could not revive their father. Some scholars identify him with the Classic Maya maize god.