Round 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. Those figures of this type use life-feathers and lightning arrows to kill “Alien Gods” (15[1])like the giant Yé’iitsoh (“YEH-ee-tsoh”) and are born to the (*) Sun and Changing Woman in the Diné Bahane’ (“dih-NAY BAH-hah-neh”) Navajo epic. Some of these figures (10[1])knock out a bird’s jade teeth with a blowgun and entice One Death and Seven Death into being sacrificed. For 10 points, name these cross-culturally common types of heroes like Hunahpu and Xbalanque (“shih-bah-LAHN-kweh”) in the Popol Vuh. ■END■

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