Question
Dennis Tedlock theorized that the “test houses” of Xibalba in the Popol Vuh are based on the five types of this object’s cycles. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this celestial object whose setting points aligned with the Caracol observatory’s windows. Maya astronomers tracked its 584-day cycle, which includes appearances as the morning and evening stars.
ANSWER: Venus [or Nohoch Ek’; prompt on Great Star or ek]
[10m] Venus sits on top of a shell in the glyph named for these events. Linda Schele coined this two-word term to refer to battles that Maya city-states may have timed to Venus’s rising, such as Caracol’s defeat of Tikal in 562 CE.
ANSWER: star wars [accept star war glyph]
[10h] Gabrielle Vail has associated the evening star with the black-painted God M or Ek Chuah, whom these people honored with offerings of incense on three stones. Aztec examples of these people used a bundle of sticks to represent the “Lord of the Big Nose,” Yacatecuhtli (“ya-ka-TEH-quit-lee”).
ANSWER: merchants [or traders; or pochtecas; prompt on travelers or synonyms]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 13 | 14.62 | 100% | 46% | 0% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | The Empire Bikes Back | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Lisan al-Quib | Les Missourables | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | The Jeam Team | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU B | The Oldest Men in the World | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| We Need New Names | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | var merchants | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |