Talk:Xibalba

message: No discussion on the nature of the 12 gods, their place in Mayan art, etc, etc, etc.  Mayan culture is over 2000 years old; to have the second point be about something that happened 10 years ago is a little silly.  Also, except for the bit about the rock band, the whole article is unsourced.  Oops.
-adam
I agree, I'm not sure exactly how the rest of the lords are reffered to as 'gods' and than in Mayan mythology they are refered to as demons, so which is it? It either one or the other. They are either feared and avoided and repelled or worshipped, revered, and often honored. Also, the word "Xibalbians" used to describe residents of Xibalba does not sound very Mayan like does it?
The band part has to go because it has nothing to do with the Xiblaba mythology, and should have it's own article. 
Xuchilbara 18:57, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm afraid that despite the reference to D. Tedlock, much of the material here seems to be drawn from the term Xibalba being recycled as a setting for some computer RPG, and as such is not genuinely related to actual Maya accounts. Definitely needs a fair amount of work to separate out/remove the modern fictional/recreational interpretations.--cjllw | TALK 00:26, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fragment!!! 

message: I object because this article has alot to do w/ Mayan religion, the story of Popol Vuh for example. Its very important, when i get more time I'll update it w/ poper citations.
Xuchilbara 01:05, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion

message: the page Metnal only says:
Metnal is the 16th-century Yucatec name of the Underworld, called Xibalba in the Guatemalan highlands.
maybe that Xibalba is aka Metnal can be added/merged here and redirected... only that it's separate in es:Metnalfr:Metnallt:Mitnalas
Skullers (talk) 06:59, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Although there's some case to be made for merging the two, I think there's a stronger case to keep them separate. While there are a few commonalities there are equally significant differences between Yucatec and highland Maya cultures and beliefs, both in precolumbian & preconquest times. Xibalba and Metnal may both describe a mythological underworld, but their characteristics and stories are not quite the same thing. "Maya" as a unifying term is one more of convenience, it doesn't mean that all Maya peoples everywhere believed exactly the same things and told the same stories. There are related similarities of course, but there would be a number of statements that may be said about the accounts of Xibalba that would not necessarily be true of the accounts of Metnal, and vice versa.--cjllw ʘ TALK 04:04, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Metnal 

message: The IPA pronunciation guide in the article is written in English RP, and even links to the "IPA for English" page. Considering this is about Ancient Mexican mythology, shouldn't the IPA guide be in Nahuatl instead? While I'm not very good with IPA or this region of history, I would pronounce it as /χibaɬba/. Although I'm not sure that is completely correct, it is probably more accurate than the current IPA guide. --ConCass (talk) 18:22, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I've switched it to Mayan IPA, and corrected the pronunciation. All the best, Simon Burchell (talk) 09:34, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified  on Xibalba. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
*Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20070502210330/http://www.sfu.ca:80/archaeology/museum/ndi/twinmyths.html to http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/ndi/twinmyths.html
When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ).
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 22:56, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Can someone explain why my edit reversed at  and . And finally I had to put a fact template there.AlleinStein (talk) 21:36, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Because it does not pass WP:FRINGE as a reliable source, see the publisher Hampton Roads Publishing Company. Heiro 21:48, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The book, from the blurb, seems to be about Atlantis, hardly relevant here. As mentioned by Heironymous Rowe, it is self-published. Critically, it was published in 2014 - by which time the sentence about Cobán was already in the Wikipedia article (2013 version of article) - so the mention in the book may well have been pulled out of this article in the first place, leading to circular referencing. As a note, I have a largish book collection about Guatemala/Mesoamerica, and don't recall having come across a mention of this, although Bartolomé de las Casas may well have mentioned it in one of his works. Simon Burchell (talk) 22:00, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ref