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La casa de los murciélagos es la cuarta prueba que los dos muchachos tienen que sobrevivir en Xib'alb'a, después de la Casa de Jaguares y antes de la Casa de los Chayes, como lo llama el lingüista k'iche' Sam Colop (2008: 70-71).

Anthropologist Dennis Tedlock (1996: 340) says that this house, the fourth in the series of tortures through which the Hero Twins must pass, "possibly correspond[s] to a position on the Mayan zodiac. Bat House is also the name of a lordly Cakchiquel lineage, otherwise known as Macaw House, whose founders stole fire from the Quichés rather than pledge themselves as sacrifice victims."