Tucumbalam

Grinding bones to powder is what is done to the Hero Twins by the lords of Xibalba several hundred lines later, and it is what allows them to come back. The book uses the same operation twice, once as annihilation and once as the mechanism of return, and the second use only lands because of the first.

Domains

• destruction

Sources

• Tucumbalam is the fourth destroyer of the wooden people in the Popol Vuh, who ground their bones to powder, and is identified by commentators as the tapir.: Popol Vuh, the destruction of the wooden people. (primary)