Superphysics
The Creation of Homo Sapiens
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The Creator and the Maker said:
Then they broke up and destroyed their work and their creation.
Thus they spoke when they conferred again:
In this manner the Creator and the Maker spoke to Xpiyacoc and Xmucané.
Then they spoke to those soothsayers, the Grandmother of the day, the Grandmother of the Dawn, as they were called by the Creator and the Maker, and whose names were Xpiyacoc and Xmucané*.
Superphysics Note
And said Huracán, Tepeu, and Gucumatz when they spoke to the soothsayer, to the Maker, who are the diviners:
You must work together and find the means so that man, whom we shall make will nourish and sustain us, invoke and remember us.
“Enter, then, into council, grandmother, grandfather, our grandmother, our grandfather, Xpiyacoc, Xmucané, make light, make dawn, have us invoked, have us adored, have us remembered by created man, by made man, by mortal man. Thus be it done.
*Here the text seems to enumerate the usual occupations of the men of that time. The author calls upon ahqual, who is evidently the one who carves emeralds or green stones; ahyamanic, the jeweler or silversmith; ahchut, engraver or sculptor; ahtzalam, carver or cabinetmaker; ahraxalac, he who fashions green or beautiful plates; ahraxazel, he who makes the beautiful green vases or gourds (called Xicalli in Náhuatl,)–the word raxá has both meanings; ahgol, he who makes the resin or copal; and, finally, ahtoltecat, he who, without doubt, was the silversmith. The Tolteca were in fact, skilled silversmiths who, according to the legend, were taught the art by Quetzalcoatl himself.
Thus the diviners were told.
**Erythrina corallodendron. Tzité, arbol de pito in Guatemala; Tzompanquahuitl in the Mexican language. It is used in both countries to make fences. Its fruit is a pod which contains red grains resembling a bean which the Indians used, as they still do, together with grains of corn, in their fortunetelling and witchcraft. In his Informe contra Idolorum Cultores, Sánchez de Aguilar says that the Maya Indians ‘cast lots with a large handful of corn.’ As is seen, the practice which is still observed by the Maya-Quiché is of respectable antiquity.
They went down at once to make their divination, and cast their lots with the corn and the tzité.
- Xpiyacoc was an old man who cast the lots with Tzité.
- Chiracán Xmucané was an old woman who was the diviner, the maker.
Beginning the divination, they said:
They said, “Say if it is well that the wood be got together and that it be carved by the Creator and the Maker, and if this [man of wood] is he who must nourish and sustain us when there is light when it is day!
Then they talked and spoke the truth:
“Your figures of wood shall come out well; they shall speak and talk on earth.”
Instantly, the figures were made of wood. They looked like men, talked like men, and populated the surface of the earth.
They existed and multiplied.
They had daughters, they had sons, these wooden figures.*
Superphysics Note
But they did not have souls, nor minds, they did not remember their Creator, their Maker. They walked on all fours, aimlessly*.
They no longer remembered the Heart of Heaven and therefore they fell out of favor.
It was merely a trial, an attempt at man. At first they spoke, but their face was without expression. Their feet and hands had no strength. They had no blood, nor substance, nor moisture, nor flesh.
Their cheeks were dry, their feet and hands were dry, and their flesh was yellow.
Therefore, they no longer thought of their Creator nor their Maker, nor of those who made them and cared for them.
These were the first men who existed in great numbers on the face of the earth.
