Editing Maya mythology (section)

===Creation of Humankind===
The ''Popol Vuh'' gives a sequence of four efforts at creation: First were animals, then wet clay, wood, and then last, the creation of the first ancestors from [[maize]] dough. To this, the Lacandons add the creation of the main kin groupings and their [[totem|'totemic']] animals.<ref>Boremanse 1986: 30-38</ref> A Verapaz myth preserved by Las Casas in his 'Apologética Historia Sumaria'<ref>Chinchilla Mazariegos 2017: 30, 55-56</ref> assigns the creation of humankind to artisan gods similar to the ''Popol Vuh'' monkey brothers. The creation of humanity is concluded by the Mesoamerican tale of the opening of the Maize (or Sustenance) Mountain by the Lightning deities.<ref>Thompson 1970: 349-354; Bierhorst 1990: 86-90</ref>