Popol Vuh

Popol Vuh, where to start in this crazy "myth". The complete text is blasphemy! This entire read was mocking the entire word of God. It took the truth in the Bible and turned it into false truth. In the beginning of the text it is said that everything was still, there was no creation on the earth until two gods come together and conceived to make humanity, animals first. These gods wanted to be worshipped and spoken to but because the animals did not have a language they wiped them off the earth by getting eaten and killed. After they decided to get rid of animals these gods decided okay lets make people from mud, sounds too familiar doesn't it, that didn't work out for them so they created man out of wood. The first chapter alone stopped me in my tracks. In the bible it says, God, as in Yahweh, spoke a word and created the heaven and earth. In the book of Genesis it says how God created earth, day, night, animals, sea, and man within 7 days. As the reading continues it speaks about "good", evil, sacrifices, humans being made out of corn?! Its evident enough to say what the Mayan people believed in. Its interesting to me that they believed in gods and the creation of man and the world but they just don't acknowledge what god is the one to serve and live by. The authors of the Popol Vuh are all anonymous. Interesting! As I did further research I found it fascinating that people explaining this story say that these authors decided to remain anonymous because they wanted the story to get out but protect themselves. I don't believe for one second that's why they remained faceless. Around this time that Popol Vuh came out was way after the Bible had been written. To say the authors were unaware about God and how He created the earth would've been a far stretch. As I was doing my research listening to videos and reading more text it perplexed me that someone can even say this is "stories of the Bible" or "this reminds me of Noah's Ark growing up as a Christian" and say proudly they're okay with a text like this. My God will not be mocked. If you want to write about things in the bible then do so boldly but to turn it into a myth? For literature? The text was disturbing.
 

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