The Sacred Book of the Maya - Creational Story


	The Sacred Book of the Maya - Creational Story

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3-10-2007 10:17 AM

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The Popol Vuh, preserved in various transcriptions since the 16th century, was lost for many years and rediscovered.
A simplified version of the complex text is now available in <A href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/maya/pvgm/">English </A>and Spanish. 
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One part of this story recounts the first attempts of the creator, Heart of Sky to create humans.  Finally he created the  "True People" by constructing them with maize. 
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they came to decide on the right material for the creation of man. . . .
Then our Makers Tepew and Q'uk'umatz began discussing the creation of our
first mother and father. Their flesh was made of white and yellow corn.
The arms and legs of the four men were made of corn meal.</UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.crystalinks.com/popolvuh.html"><P>
This is a very reasonable explanation since, in essence, it was the cultivation of maize that gave the early Maya culture the means to change from hunters gatherers to their highly advanced civilization. 
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