The Popul Vuh - Mayan Creation Myth

A rare surviving document from Meso-Amerian, Pre-Colombian Mayan literature, the Popul Vuh (The Book of the People) contains one of the most beautiful creation stories in all of world mythology. Let's read it together and discover its sublime vision of God, the earth, and the exhalted place humans hold in the bejeweled cosmos. [The version I read aloud here is from the first edition of David Leemings "The Power of Myth," Oxford University Press, 1990. And Leeming got it from Paul Jordan Smith, "In the Very Beginning," Parabola, 2, no. 2 (Spring 1977), 41-43]