table of contents a kernal planting the three hunters and the dead boy sprouts the time the babies grew fangs and hunted their parents first weeding mother moon is torn in half , and her blood creates maize light and heat the time father sun killed all the boys growing the war between the cities weeding the night of spirits ripening the great sacrifice on 13 kawil harvest sacnik and the yax cacao burning ix-xuls vision ashes about the author a kernal the day of my birth was 17 ch'en 11 ix , a day when the harvest was coming to an end and the delicious foods of the fields were plentiful .