Central Narrative: Hunab Ku, the greatest Mayan Diety (an intangible God associated with creation, the sun and the stars) interacts with the remaining practising Mayan population of Central America - outside of Foundation knowledge due to obscurity and minor effect - through traditional Maya practices. For example, divinations will hold clear knowledge of the future, and rituals/customs will show a marked and measurable improvement, and in sacred caves, Hunab Ku can be communicated with.
Following Foundation containment, modern archaeological evidence shows Hunab-Ku is an interpretation of the Christian God inserted into Maya culture by Christian Missionaries in the 16th century in a (successful) attempt to introduce monotheism and a benevolent God into a polytheistic society, a fact it was previously unaware of.
Hunab Ku must now reconcile it's existence as the head of the Mayan faith with its role in the destruction of Maya culture, carrying with it crushing guilt at what it's existence enabled in following interviews and rituals where it must personally confront the atrocities that it was used to justify.
After a period of melancholy and inaction, discussions with the Maya people lead Hunab Ku to realize that, despite all the hardships they have faced, its people have endured and continued to hold onto tradition and Hunab Ku itself, and it would be doing a disservice to give up. Reinvigorated, it prepares to step up to it's role as the head of Mayan gods.
The article will focus heavily on the character, showing its progression through direct means (interviews) as well as indirect ones (responses to prayers and ritual) as it attempts to come to terms with itself and what it represents.
Hook/Attention-Grabber: An exploration of Maya myth, something sorely underrepresented on the wiki, and a commentary on the fallout of Spanish Colonialism and the cultural destruction that came with it.
Additional Notes: Central American Colonization and the Maya culture are topics I am very familiar with and have researched in depth. I do not intend to sugar coat atrocities, rather highlight the fallout of them.
The historical basis for Hunab Ku (An intangible god introduced by Spanish Missionaries to try and spread monotheism and a parallel to their God) is based in real life. Prior to Spanish contact, the diety does not appear on records irl.
