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The Jaguar Baby is the God GIII in an infant formnamed
Xib (young man). He is often depicted with his partner Chac-Xib-Chac
performing the sacrificial dance. This god isreally a form of God
III, one of the Palenque Triad, threeancestor gods of the kings
of Palenque. He
along with God I may be alternate versions of the Hero Twins, the
prominant protagonists in the Popol Vuh.

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