Skeleton Trivia for Tuesday, 2026-10-27
It ain’t your grandpa’s Swallow Sidecar Company! Or, well, maybe it is
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
This ancient Maya codex sure is full of interestin stuff! Though I can’t really read more ’n a page or two before I get this horrible throbbin pain on my occiput, like the arm of a molten hot star is reachin out & brandin the inside of my cranium with a whole saga of unutterable sufferin. Uff da!
Answers to Last Time
- Thank youse all for remindin me that the Pokémon that looks like a Rafflesia arnoldii flower is called Vileplume.
- In addition to givin me this unearthly headache, readin ’bout Xibalba also reminded me of that The Fountain movie by Darren Aronofsky.
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
Xibalba is pronounced pretty similarly to the movie character Sebulba. (How’s THAT for a segue?)
We first meet Sebulba on the day before the Boonta Eve Classic, bein held near the city of Mos Espa on what fictional planet? Only 6 of the original 18 racers made it to the end of that particular Classic, yikes! But even THAT apparently wasn’t dangerous enough, ’cause apparently in later years they’d go on to add some Dune-Pipes to the Hutt Flats segment of the race.
Trivia 2
So in this codex I’m readin, it’s talkin ’bout these six places – they call ’em “houses”, but that makes ’em sound way more welcomin than they are … but so anyways, there’re these six spots that visitors to the underworld gotta pass through.
The first spot is the “Place of Darkness”. That one’s just completely pitch black. Which sounds annoyin, I guess? But I’ve been worse places.
Spot two is the “Place of Coldness”, which as ya might expect is tooth-chatterin’ly chilly. But in my experience, most folks who complain ’bout the cold? They’re just plain UNPREPARED. Like I got this winter coat from L.L. Bean that I absolutely swear by. I don’t got a whole lot of built-in insulation (I’m a pretty lean fella, folks sometimes tell me) but that coat’s kept me toasty through even the worst of our midwestern winters! So I’m not too worried ’bout a li’l ice breeze.
It’s place three where I feel like things could get kinda dicier. That one’s chock full of what type of critter – or, well, “critter” kinda makes it small, probably I should just call it a carnivore – but so anyway, what’s this carnivore that shows up all over the place in Maya legends?
It was most closely associated with the underworld, but royalty also liked to use it as a symbol: e.g., there’s a red throne shaped like this creature at Chichen Itza inside the Temple of Kukulcan.
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee