Members of this ethnic group make offerings to a deity who was supposed to protect the virtue of fishermen’s wives but had sex with them instead, represented as a wooden statue with a cigar in his mouth and layered in embroidered garments. These people, who have diviners called “day keepers,” created the story of a man who can turn into a goat called the huay chivo (“WYE CHEE-voe”), which is related to their wayob (“WYE-ahb”). Among these people, the four brothers who each stand at one of the four directions are sons of (*) Itzamná (“eet-sahm-NAH”) called bacabs. The Dresden and Madrid codices record how these people worshiped the rain god Chaac (“CHAHCK”). In one myth of these people, Seven Macaw is defeated by the Hero Twins, who also go to the underworld of Xibalba (“shee-bahl-BAH”). For 10 points, name these people whose beliefs are recorded in the Popol Vuh ■END■
ANSWER: Maya people [or Mayans] (the god in the first sentence is Maximón)
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