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… All creatures, including man, were spirits. They moved about in space between the earth and the stars (the heavens). They were seeking a place where they could come into a bodily existence. They ascended to the sun, but the sun was not fitted for their abode. They moved on to the moon and found that it also was not good for their home. Then they descended to the earth. They saw it was covered with water. They floated through the air to the north, the east, the south, and the west, and found no dry land. They were sorely grieved. Suddenly from the midst of the water uprose a great rock. It burst into flames and the waters floated into the air in clouds. Dry land appeared; the grasses and the trees grew. The hosts of spirits descended and became flesh and blood. They fed on the seeds of the grasses and the fruits of the trees, and the land vibrated with their expressions of joy and gratitude to Wakonda, the maker of all things.”
THE QUICHÉ'S MYTH OF CREATION
This is the first word and the first speech: There were neither men nor brutes, neither birds, fish nor crabs, stick nor stone, valley nor mountain, stubble nor forest, nothing but the sky.
The face of the land was hidden; there was naught but the silent sea and the sky.
There was nothing joined, nor any sound, nor thing that stirred; neither any to do evil, nor to rumble in the heavens, nor a walker on foot; only the silent waters, only the pacified ocean, only it in its calm.
Nothing was, but stillness and rest and darkness and the night.
Nothing but the Maker and Moulder, the Hurler, the Bird Serpent.
In the waters, in a limpid twilight, covered with green feathers, slept the mothers and the fathers.
And over all passed Hurakan, the night-wind, the black rushing Raven, and cried with rumbling croak, “Earth! ..text pokračuje
