When the falcon arrived, he alighted atop the edge of the ballcourt while Hunahpu and Xbalanque were rejoicing and playing ball.

Then the falcon cried out:

“Wak-ko! Wak-ko!” was the cry of the falcon.

“What is that which is crying out? To our blowguns!” they said.

SO then they shot the falcon. The pellet from the blowgun buried itself straight into his eye, knocking him down. Thus he fell, and they went out to grab him and question him:

“Why have you come?” they asked the falcon.

“I have a message in my belly. But surely you must first cure my eye, and then I will tell it,” said the falcon.

“Very well then,” they replied.

- Popol Vuh, The Summons of Hunahpu and Xbalanque to Xibalba / Hunahpu and Xbalanque Receive the Summons to Xibalba