Then Ajtzak and Ajbit told them: 'You will exist only until the new beings appear. They could speak but had no feelings (they lacked understanding, according to the A. Recinos version). This is borne out in another part of the Quiché codex wherein human sacrifices are regarded as pertaining to a barbaric people and their epoch, and not sanctioned by divine laws promulgated for "civilized" peoples, who can only sacrifice animals. This website is already known during the Second Age, the bean was apparently more easily domesticated and had reached its full development before maize, so that it can be seen as the basic food of the Third Age. Such a law was imposed because of economic necessities, inasmuch as man passed from nomadism to fixed habitations and had then to take care not to heedlessly destroy his hunting reserves. Such an idea is perfectly explainable in terms of Maya thought because, besides the reference that the men of the second creation lacked understanding, they disintegrated when in contact with water, a feature clearly expressing the antithesis between Second Age and Maya culture. gave them or the misuse made of them. if(MSFPhover) { MSFPnav14n=MSFPpreload("../KJV/_derived/index-kjv.htm_cmp_pie-charts2110_hbtn.gif"); MSFPnav14h=MSFPpreload("../KJV/_derived/index-kjv.htm_cmp_pie-charts2110_hbtn_a.gif"); } of his feathers and his riches. And with the first astronomical observations were born magic and the astrological sciences, facts that are stated in the Popol Vuh which tell of gods practicing divination with grains of corn and red tz'ité seeds for the first time during the preparations being made for the Third Creation. Social evolution continued at the same rate as material and intellectual development. The superior importance of the goddess of the Moon and of Water, projects on the theogonic plane the privileged social position of woman, linked with the apogee of horticulture. This repetition of the same theme in a different form recalls to mind the system of double reconciliation or adjustment found in Maya-Quiché chronology, which, projected in the literary structure of the manuscript, contributes an informative supplement of the highest importance, as we shall see in the following section. penetrating rays, of the extension of the firmament, of the luminous face, the Maker, etc. And all this happened when the flood came because of the wooden people. It happened that Deity Our Father invented the first death" (Girard, Los Chortís). if(MSFPhover) { MSFPnav49n=MSFPpreload("_derived/popvuh-3-03.htm_cmp_pie-charts2110_hbtn.gif"); MSFPnav49h=MSFPpreload("_derived/popvuh-3-03.htm_cmp_pie-charts2110_hbtn_a.gif"); } The life of primeval man could not have been sketched more vividly, nor the ethnical features of the country during its first cultural stage, corresponding to the hunter-gatherer cycle. There was no sun // --> . So for the first time on the theogonic stage there appears a feminine deity (Ixmucané), the personification of the old Lunar-earth goddess, who will thenceforth become the center of attention inasmuch as Ixpiyacoc — a masculine deity — plays an essentially passive role. Nevertheless, there was a being called Vucub-Caquix who was very proud of himself. forth the fact that it was not racial but cultural factors that shaped the native mentality. They lacked rites or ceremonies (they didn't know how to worship Divinity, says the Popol Vuh). // -->