Note to moderator: Read answerline carefully. Theodore Morde claimed to have found a city he named for a god that was this type of animal, often identified with the mythical Ciudad Blanca of Honduras. A figure often referred to as “One Artisan” is alternatively named for one of these animals, which were associated with arts and the eleventh day of the calendar. Tezcatlipoca turned the humans of the second sun into these animals, who were then swept away by Quetzalcoatl in a (*) hurricane. Two figures named for these animals placed their siblings on an anthill to die after their grandmother disliked their crying. After climbing a tree that continued to grow taller, two older brothers of the Hero Twins are turned into these creatures. For 10 points, name these animals, which have “spider” and “howler” species. ■END■
ANSWER: monkeys [accept howler monkeys or spider monkeys; accept chuen; accept batz only if spelled as such; prompt on bats by asking “please spell that?”; reject “bat”]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, Mythology>
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