Packet 3: Tossup 5

In many Brazilian myths, one of these figures stops giving his mother directions when she slaps a wasp on her belly, leading her to Jaguar spirits who bite her open and raise that example of these figures as their own until a “tell-tale bird” reveals the truth. Blackened skin represents one of these figures to repel miasmatic ghosts called chʼį́įdii (“CHEEN-dee”) in the “Enemy Way” ceremony. (-5[1])Those figures of this type use life-feathers and lightning arrows to kill “Alien Gods” (15[1])like the (15[1])giant (15[3])Yé’iitsoh (15[2])(“YEH-ee-tsoh”) and are born to the (*) Sun and Changing (10[1])Woman (10[1])in the (10[1])Diné Bahane’ (10[2])(“dih-NAY BAH-hah-neh”) Navajo epic. (10[4])Some of (10[1])these figures (10[2])knock out (10[1])a bird’s jade teeth (10[1])with (10[1])a blowgun (10[6])and entice (10[4])One (10[1])Death and Seven Death into being sacrificed. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name these cross-culturally common types (10[2])of heroes (-5[1])like (-5[1])Hunahpu (10[1])and Xbalanque (10[1])(“shih-bah-LAHN-kweh”) in the Popol Vuh. ■END■ (10[2]0[2])

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