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Through a misunderstanding, a wife killed and cooked her child. She and her husband ate it and enjoyed it, and soon everyone was killing and cooking children. God became angry and sent a deluge. One intelligent man survived in a canoe. Right after the flood, he lit a fire, and God smelled the smoke. God sent the buzzard, turkey buzzard, and churn-owl to investigate, but they stayed to eat dead bodies. God condemned them always to eat dead bodies. God then sent the hawk, which reported back. The man was turned into a monkey.

Horcasitas, 1953, 198.

The Padre Santo warned two brothers that a flood was coming, and they, with many animals, survived in an ark. When the waters were subsiding, the younger brother fell out of the ark, landed in a tree, and turned into a monkey.

Horcasitas, 1953, 198.

The first men could not talk and, having neither clothes nor fire, were cold. The creator ordered Mam to destroy the world with a flood. In a later creation, God made fruit trees, and ants brought maize out of the hills. When man began to eat, he began to talk.

J. Eric S. Thompson, "Maya Creation Myths", Estudios de Cultura Maya 5 (1965), 31-32.