Humberto GarciaReligion 110Professor W. RaverPopol VuhMyths organize the way we perceive and understand our reality. Myths provide stability to a culture, and in this sense; they serve to explain the inexplicable. In Barbra Sproul's view, creation myths reveal basic religious concerns related to how the universe was formed and how people or societies are shaped. The myths speak of the transcendent and unknowable aspects in a drama that attempts to reveal and account for human existence and man's position in the cosmos. Through myth, the dimensions of space, nature and time are expressed in symbolism that shows how the sacred can be experienced or transmitted if understood correctly. The Popol Vuh is a collection of mythical tales that tell the origins and history of the Quiche Maya people. The narrative opens with a description of what it was like before the first creation. “There were no men or animals… there was only the calm sea and the great expanse of sky” (Sproul, Barbra. Primal Myths, Harper Collins Publishers 1979, Pg. 288). Only Tepeu and Gucumatz, the creator couple, existed as solar fire powers in the void of the dark waters. After the agreement, the creative couple said "let it be done", and so it was. From this; the land emerged from the sea, mountains and valleys were formed, the water currents divided and wild animals were born (guardians of the woods and spirits of the mountains). Animals were commanded to praise their creators and invoke the gods; but they could not speak like men, so they were banished to the forests. The Gods made three failed attempts to create humanity. In the first attempt to create humans, they used mud, although this failed because... middle of paper......or divinity, that there is this spiritual connection between nature (natural world) and the man. The Maya do not exploit the lands (producers of corn) because "Everything that is... manifests itself above the waters" (Eliade, Mircea, The sacred and the profane, Harcourt 1959, page 131) and therefore having a connection with the world of. Notions of sacred space are defined in the classical image of the sky. The sky shows itself to be "infinite, transcendent... it is the completely other par excellence" (Eliade, Mircea, The sacred and the profane, Harcourt 1959, page 118). Transcendence is revealed from this infinite height. In the beginning, only the calm waters and the sky existed. “Because the sky, by its way of being, “reveals transcendence, strength, eternity… it absolutely exists because it is high, infinite and eternal”” (Eliade, Mircea, The sacred and the profane, Harcourt 1959, Pg. 119) .