Their history begins in 6th and 8th century. They had the Olmec fundamentals and became the master builders of the pyramids. Their ceremonies involved human sacrifice, sun worship, and the sacred ball game. The Aztecs came after them.

These are the art pages of Edgar Martin del Campo Ph.D

* From her father she had learned of the marvelous calabash tree. Desireing to possess some of the fruit, she journeyed alone to the somber place where it grew.

Later when Xquiq returned to her home, her father discovered that she was to become a mother. She told her father that the child was begotten when she gazed at the head of Hunhun-ahpu in the calabash tree, and that she had known no man. No one belived her and the princes of Xibalba demanded her heart in an urn. Led away by her executioners Xquiq pleaded that they spare her life. They agreed to this substituting the fruit of the rubber tree. The sap was red and the consistency of blood. When the princes of Xibalba placed the supposed heart upon the coals of the alter to be consumed, all were amazed by the perfumed aroma. They did not realize that they were burning the fruit of a fragrant plant.