Xibalba - Modern Cultural References

Modern Cultural References

• Xibalba Sulcus, one of the geological features on Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, is named after Xibalba.
• The place is featured in the films The Fountain as Orion nebula and The Road to El Dorado as an eternal whirlpool.
• The place is featured in the video games Tomb Raider Underworld, Atlantis II, Persona 2: Tsumi
• The place is featured in Jon Rosenberg's Goats (webcomic).
• The place is prominent in Steve Alten's science fiction novel Domain.
• A mini-series, "The Princes of Xibalba", are four songs by the band Estradasphere, on the album It's Understood.
• The Guatemala-Mayan author Luis de Lión wrote the novel El tiempo principia en Xibalbá (Time Began in Xibalba, publ. 1985).
• In the book The Necromancer: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott, it is a shadow realm, a large cave, known as the Crossroads of the Shadowrealms
• The club owned by Dee Snider's character in the movie Strangeland is called Xibalba. According to the movie, Xibalba means "Door to Hell".
• Beat poet Allen Ginsberg described a visit to the place in his 1954 poem 'Sieste in Xbalba'.
• In the book Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card, after traveling back through time to 15th century Central America, the character Hunahpu plays the part of a messenger of "The Lords of Xibalba" to his Indian ancestors, as part of a plan to change their beliefs and create a less-aggressive alternative future.
• In the video game Persona 2, the final dungeon is Xibalba, which due to a curse on Sumaru City involving rumours becoming reality, is an ancient spaceship that levitates the entire city in the air. Several Mayan demons are also in the game, such as Camazotz (who is frequently encountered in Xibalba itself). One method of reaching Xibalba is going through the Silver Silver, also known as the Milky Way.
• Level two of the video game Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure takes place in Xibalba.