Hun Chouen
Maya · demigod · cosmogonic · Recorded classification
He is never mentioned without his brother and has no separate act in the book, which is why the record is shorter and says so rather than padding. Both names are day-names, which is the tell: the Monkey Twins are calendrical before they are characters, and the Classic-period monkey scribes on the vases are two, not one.
Parentage
- parent: Hun Hunahpu
- parent: Xbaquiyalo
Domains
- scribes
Relations
- twin sibling: Hun BatzThe other half.Popol Vuh: the two are twins and are always named as a pair. (primary)
Sources
- Hun Chouen is the twin of Hun Batz, son of Hun Hunahpu and Xbaquiyalo, patron with him of scribes and artists, and transformed into a monkey by the Hero Twins.: Popol Vuh on the Monkey Twins. (primary); Reference treatment of the howler monkey gods. (secondary)