Xmucane - The Ichtacan Ancestors (Lore)

In the beginning, there were two gods, separate but equal: Ahau-Kin, the Sun God, and Nenetl, the Moon Goddess. Ahau-Kin wanted just Nenetl, and nothing else as there was no conflict, nor were there any trials - just emptiness and them in light with the only balance of Nenetl's corner of shadow. Nenetl, however, wished for children every moment - though there was no time - but never had the courage to ask throughout their existence. Secretly, Nenetl stole and dampened some light of Ahau-Kin, and created her first child, Ah-Kinchil - the God of love. Delighted by the company, Nenetl cared for Ah-Kinchil every moment she could while Ahau-Kin would sleep, wrapping her child in shadows. Soon, Ah-Kinchil asked for a sister - an equal for his own. Thrilled for another child, Nenetl took a smaller amount of light and created Xquiq - the Goddess of sin.

The two siblings danced and played in the shadows, away from their father. They knew that something bad would happen but did not know what yet as the balance to creation had not arose yet. Nenetl, filling with the love and sorrow from her children's powers, desired to make another child. She stole and equal amount of light as she used shadow from her husband once again. From this mixture came Ahulane - God of skill. Her children gladly accepted the new member of the family and the three cared for each other and developed their powers and responsibilities. However, as Ahulane's power grew, so did trouble. Ahau-Kin noticed that the light and shadow had grown closer together, and formed a plan to figure out why. When the Sun God would usually rest, he laid awake in turmoil while keeping an eye on the shadows and his wife. The children, thinking their father was asleep, came out to play with their mother. Suddenly, Ahau-Kin sprung from his resting place in the light enraged!

Nenetl, filled with fear for the first time, arose to protect the new Gods and Goddess and stood in front of the children in face of the Sun God. Ahau-Kin, wishing to destroy the children and restore the universe to its previous ways, made the first strike. He slashed Nenetl across her eye, blinding her of her previous perception of him and stealing her of part of her sight. Xquiq then began to brighten, as the first sin of the universe had been committed. Rage filled her soul and Xquiq ran to her father, ready to strike. With this action, Ah-Kinchil also began to fill with his power, as Xquiq was acting in the first act of true love. He joined his sister's charge and together they made their way to the Sun God's soul.

Seeing their chance in Ahau-Kin's pain, the elder siblings struck his body in harmony and destroyed it, preventing access to a vessel and his powers. With her children's actions she was filled with both love and sorrow, so Nenetl created the afterlife for a home for her husband. A place made for previous life, the Goddess made it comfortable and lush. In her final creation of this afterlife and use of the underside, Nenetl was struck with an idea. In her new home of the heavens, she came up with the Earth and a chance to fill the universe with life. Nenetl created water, air, ground and fire to live in harmony on this new realm of the universe. She then moved to creatures to fill this new realm and filled it with all kinds of creations, and in honor of her children she created worshipers - humans. These humans soon worked the soil and lived alongside the simpler creatures in knowledge of their gods, worshiping them and praising all for their creation. With the humans' creation, came another creation - the royals who were born from a God or Goddess who believed that a human had proved their worth and gifted them a half-blood child of both God and human.

In a final act of creation, Nenetl created a final child Goddess to manage the growing underside which was growing in number of souls who had died on Earth, as Nenetl's Earthly creations were not meant to live forever except for a select few who had proven there worthiness to the Gods and would never perish. This new Goddess, Yoltzin, helped her mother by managing her father and the souls of the underside. Now satisfied with her work, Nenetl watches her creations live on Earth and communicate to the Gods, living out their pleasures and trials in balance.