Why the Sky Has Three Moons
This is the story of the heroic twins of the Ixile'a people, Kaana' Nic Te' and Ha' K'uum. They were found by a woman named Ixmucane, who had long ago given up having children of her own. She raised the twins as her grandchildren, telling them their mother was the moon and the wind and their father the rain and the sun.
She named one of the girls Kaana' Nic Te' because the child's hair was dark as the night sky and she would never stop picking flowers to bring to her abuela. The other, Ixmucane called Ha' K'uum, because the girl loved pumpkins and splashing in puddles.
Kaana' Nic Te' and Ha' K'uum grew up loved by their grandmother in Palenque, third of the Nine Kingdoms, in the northwest of Ixtepan. They went out hunting in the jungles of their home and brou
