The Popol Vuh

Gut in Schuss

At that time, there were no people, no animals, no trees--nothing. It was all a desolate wasteland with no end. Space lay still upon the flatness and the immense sea rested over chaos. There was nothing brought together, nothing moving. What was above bore no relation to that was below. Nothing was seen standing. Only the silent stillness of the water could be felt as it seemed to fall into the abyss. In the silence of the darkness lived the gods who were said to be Tepeu, Gucumatz and Ilurakan and in whose names are guarded the secrets of creation, existence and death, the earth and its creatures.

Maya