was silent and only the sea was there. Quiet in the dark. Only the Creators and Shapers, Tepew and Q´uk´umatz, were on the water, surrounded by light and covered with green and blue feathers. They were wise and great thinkers, because they were the helpers of the Sky Heart, which is the name of God. They then decided to create the trees and the vines. By the will of Sky Heart, also called Juraqan, they created the plants of the darkness and gave life to human beings. (Victor Montejo. 1999) [1]
But there is another Maya variant of creation in the Chilam Balaam[2] of Chumayel. Surely, if we could gather the creation myths of all the cultures of the ancient Mexico, we would find in their diversity a philosophical matrix, which speaks of a shared origin.
"Dominus vobisculum all said when there where there was neither heaven nor land.
From the abyss earth was born, when there was no heaven or earth. He who is divine and powerful, carved the large Grace Stone, there where before was no sky.
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- ↑ Victor Dionisio Montejo was born in Jacaltenango, Huehuetenango Guatemala, in 1951, he speaks the Maya Language (popb’ al ti). His life took a sharp turn in 1980 while a grammar school teacher. An army company came and confused them with a civil auto-defense group and fired upon them. He left and with difficulties completed college studies. Obtained scholarships and achieved masters from the Albany State University of New York and subsequently a doctor’s degree from Connecticut University. Has written several books.
- ↑ The Books of Chilam Balam are handwritten, chiefly 18th-century Mayan miscellanies, named after the small Yucatec towns where they were originally kept, and preserving important traditional knowledge in which indigenous Mayan and early Spanish traditions have coalesced. Written in the Yucatec Maya language and using the Latin alphabet, the manuscripts are attributed to a legendary author called Chilam Balam, a chilam being a priest who gives prophecies and balam a common surname meaning 'jaguar'. Some of the texts actually contain prophecies about the coming of the Spaniards to Yucatan while mentioning a chilam Balam as their first author. Nine Books of Chilam Balam are known, most importantly those from Chumayel, Mani, and Tizimin, but many more have existed. Both language and content show that parts of the books date back to the time of the Spanish conquest of the Yucatec kingdoms (1527-1546). In some cases, where the language is particularly terse, the books appear to render hieroglyphic script, and thus to hark back to the pre-conquest period.
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