Heal Falcon

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.

So they took off a little of the surface of their rubber ball and put it in the face of
the falcon. This they called Sliced Rubber. Immediately he was cured by them, making
good again the sight of the falcon.

“Tell it then,” they said to the falcon.


- Popol Vuh