According to the Popol Vuh the forefather gods, Tepeu and Gueumatz, brought forth the earth from a watery void, and endowed it with animals and plants. Anxious for praise and veneration after the creation, the divine progenitors fashioned man-like creatures from mud, but to mud they returned. Next a race of wooden creatures appeared, but the mindless manikins were destroyed by the gods to be replaced by men made of flesh. These however turned to wickedness and were annihilated as black rains fell as a great flood swept the earth. Finally true men, the ancestors of the Quiche, were created from maize dough.
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