And here we shall take up the demonstration, revelation, and account of how things were put in shadow and brought to light by

the Maker, Modeler,

named Bearer, Begetter,

Hunaphu Possum, Hunaphu Coyote,

Great White Peccary, Coati,

Sovereign Plumed Serpent,

Heart of the Lake, Heart of the Sea,

plate shaper, bowl shaper, as they are called,

also named, also described as

the midwife, matchmaker

named Xpiyacoc, Xmucane,

defender, protector,

twice a midwife, twice a matchmaker, 

as is said in the words of Quiché. They accounted for everything – and did it, too – as enlightened beings, in enlightened words. We shall write about this now amid the preaching of God, in Christendom now. We shall bring it out because there is no longer 

a place to see it, a Council Book,

a place to see ‘The Light That Came from

     Beside the Sea’,

the account of ‘Our Place in the Shadows’.

a place to see ‘The Dawn of Life’,

as it is called. There is the original book and ancient writing, but the one who reads and assesses it has a hidden identity. It takes a long peformance and account to complete the lighting of all the sky-earth: 

the fourfold siding, fourfold cornering,

measuring, fourfold staking,

halving the cord, stretching the cord

in the sky, on the earth,

the four sides, the four corners, as it is said,

by the Maker, Modeler,

mother-father of life, of humankind,

giver of breath, giver of heart,

bearer, upbringer in the light that lasts

of those born in the light, begotten in the light;

worrier, knower of everything, whatever there is:

sky-earth, lake-sea."

(Popol Vuh)