Popol Vuh

In this story, it's about the Mayan civilization and their creation of the world story. One of the main things that they experienced was a trial and error method. First they made an animal, expecting it could talk and praise them. That's all they wanted after all anyways. That didn't work, so they got rid of them. The next thing they tried were people made of mud. These people were completely useless, becuase they could not walk or talk.You know the saying "The third times a charm"...not in this case. They were closer, but still not there. They made people out of wood. And they worked for a little while, but in the end they were no good. To get rid of them, similar to the Noah and the Flood story, the Gods send a flood to get rid of them. The last thing they tried was making people out of corn. (Shown in picture above). The Gods were very pleased with them. However, not everything is perfect. The corn people had flaws too. These corn people could see all. They knew everything there was to do. So the Gods fixed this problem by taking away their sight. In the end, the Gods could be praised and their creations were complete, and they were satisfied.