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Hunahpu and Xbalanque's Actions

 

            
             I think part of the reason that Hunahpu and Xbalanque always tried so hard to trick everyone and make everyone think that they were superior in power is because they were trying to make an identity for themselves. So many times throughout the beginning, before they were even born, no one believed that they had a father and they were always referred to as "bastards". Even their own brothers wouldn't recognize them as part of the family when they were born, and their grandmother wasn't interested in them either. I think this type of rejection is what really pushed the two to act out in the ways that they did. .
             When Bloodmoon, their mother, tried to go to their grandmother and explain that the babies she was carrying belonged to One Hunahpu the grandmother didn't believe her. She tried to make her leave and said, "I don't want you, no thanks, my daughter-in-law. Its just a bastard in your belly, you trickster! These children of mine who are named by you are dead." Bloodmoon finally proved to her that the babies were her grandbabies when she went to gather corn for her and the small amount she had was multiplied by the guardians of food. .
             When they were first born the grandmother said, "Throw them out of here! They"re really loudmouths!" Also, the two brothers One Monkey and One Artisan didn't even want them in the house so they went and left them outside to die on an anthill and later left them in the brambles. They were able to survive but this kind of rejection by their own family was horrible. It also tells that the brothers knew that because they were great thinkers, that their brothers would be as well, "they didn't reveal their insight because of their jealousy. The anger in their hearts came down on their own heads.".
             I"m sure that due the treatment of Hunahpu and Xbalanque by their own family, they felt they had to destroy anyone who tried to be more superior than they were and they probably also felt a duty to themselves to make their own identity.


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