Question
In Time and the Highland Maya, a scholar with this last name discussed K’iché narratives of a White and a Red Dwarf wielding lightning hatchets. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this surname of a married couple of anthropologists with a focus on the Maya. Three gods named for lightning initiate creation in the Popol Vuh, notably translated by one of those scholars with this surname in 1968.
ANSWER: Barbara or Dennis Tedlock
[10e] Mesoamerican lightning deities often lived in caves and mountaintops, as exemplified by this goggle-eyed rain god who received sacrifices of crying children from the Aztecs.
ANSWER: Tlaloc
[10m] The rain and lightning deity of this civilization, Cocijo, is often depicted with a C glyph headdress and forked tongue. Reliefs likely depicting captives in a temple of this civilization were mistakenly dubbed the Danzantes.
ANSWER: Zapotecs [or Be’ena’a]
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Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 RMP Fest Online Mirror | 05/31/25 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 RMP Fest Carleton Mirror | 07/13/25 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 RMP Fest CO Mirror | 08/10/25 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 67% | 17% |