Sunday, April 17, 2011
blog 2
The section of popol vuh involving the two monkey twins Hubatz and Hunchuoen is very interesting to me. The fact that they are sent to their own grandmother to see if she will laugh four separate times and not some other person shows that in their culture their is a deep amount of love between family members and if their own grandmother will laugh at their monkey bodies than they would be killed. Another very interesting point to this story is that the two hero twins get turned into monkeys instead of another different animal that could be considered comical such as meerkat or a cat. Once the two hero twins go to their grandmother 3 different times and she laughed at each they don't go back for the fourth.
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I too found this part of the story comical. I suppose it was a way to show a families true love, which did not seem to be as strong.
ReplyDeleteThough this was one of my favorite parts because it shows how monkeys seem to be comical, because of their actions and appearance.
I also in enjoyed that part.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, I found it hard to believe the twins had lost hope that they could turn back into humans, and accepted that their grandmother would just keep on laughing at them.
I also feel that the twins deserved to become monkeys for how they treated their bothers.