The Twin Mayan Gods of the Underworld: Hunahpu and Xbalanque #mythology

[QueSirDilla]

according to the version of story i heard, they became sun and moon

[Themanonline]

Sorry for the long read in advance but I want to mention something when u bring up the ‘2 sibling archon’ theory/leak thing at 24:00, in Neuvilette’s character quote when his splash art was released, it’s stated by a unknown character called ‘Xblanque’.

This name is taken from a character from Mayan mythology (one of the cultures we know NATLAN is based around). I don’t know much about all of the tales, but most the stories revolves around him and his Twin brother Hunahpu.
Let me horrifically simplify one of their stories real quick for an example:

Their father and his twin brother were summoned by Underworld Gods for disturbing them by playing ball, years later they also disturbed them the same way, causing them to be called down to the Underworld to play in their court with many challenges on the way, intended to embarrass, confuse and possibly kill them before they ever got there. Thru their cunningness the twins avoided every trap the Gods had set for them, until Hunahpu was decapitated and killed like his and Xblanque’s father and uncle before them. Xblanque was then offered to play the ball game with the Gods where his Hunahpu’s head was to be used as the ball. he accepted with another plan, during this game he distracted the gods and then took the head of his brother and placed it onto his brother, successfully Resurrecting Hunahpu and the two won the game. In anger the Gods still burnt Xblanque and Hunahpu to ashes and threw those ashes out into a river, this was part of the twins plan also, and due to arrangements they made before entering the underworld, the twins were again, resurrected into younger versions of themselves. Looking younger they performed tricks for the underworld Gods without being recognised, one of these tricks being killing and resurrecting each other. The Underworld Gods then demanded this trick be done on them which the twins killed them but didn’t resurrect them for obvious reasons. After this the other Underworld Gods begged for mercy and forgiveness out of fear and the twins punished them by making it that the underworld will no longer receive offerings from the living world. The twins then rose from the underworld and retrieved their fathers remains, eventually concluding with Hanuhpa becoming the moon and Xblanque becoming the sun.

The various ways resurrection plays a role in this story is notable for Natlan, along with the way the twins have a father figure they follow in the footsteps of and eventually redeem, like other Pyro users. The twins also have major beef with these Gods which in genshin could be a reference to celestia, the archons or even the dragons. Even the fact they became the sun and moon and how the underworld could be seen as having similarities with Teyvat, the twins could have relations with Aether and Lumine, be descender related themselves, the reason why celestia hasn’t acted to anything in 500 years with the twins outsmarting the Gods in the myth, with the ‘dead father’ perhaps referring to Murata they avenge in the end, just so many different interpretations.

Ik this is long as hell but the twin archon theory thing just made me think about this character being teased recently, If anyone’s reading this tell me what u think, I don’t think all of this will happen but definitely that a big part of it will be reinterpreted In genshin lore in some way, even if Xblanque isn’t even a Archon or Dragon or anything 💞💞💞