Speaker 1
So again, in r in this particular myth we've got the flood, just like we have the flood ina the bible. So you have these repeating motifs over and over again, similar motiefs throughout mythologies all across the globe. So they decide, the gods get together again in council. This is the god of the sky, the god of the sea and the od. They decide to bring in two very ancient gods who are the mother father grandmother grandfather, of all the diviners, the ones who who can see into the and see into the past and read the the calendars of days, which will allow them to see what's coming in the future. And they give the task of creating the fourth world a to those the ancient mother father, which they do. And they they decide to create humans from corn. And so they take corn and they take water, and they mix those two things together, and they create humans. And this time it works. Those humans a are the ones on on the earth in the fourth world, which is where we are right now, in ther fourth world. And then the myth a, now that we have these humans who are capable of honoring the gods and and thinking, pondering, am and dum, living in a respectful way with the gods in a reciprocal way. Then the mynth goes into a the birth of a hero twins, two sets of hero twins. And the essence of their task, which i get into in greater detail and really amplify, that's a, that's a very serious eros journey. Their task is to clear away the demons of the underworld before the earth can actually be created, before the the, the sun can dawn, ah, the sun and moon can actually dawn in the sky and begin moving in the whole cycle of that that world begin so this is a very interesting aspect of the the myth, and it's very yunan psychological, you coul say. Because these two, first, the father and uncle, attempt to clear away the demons in the underworld, but they fail. And then their, their son s, are called to do the same thing by the demons, to enter the underworld to play in the ball game, which is, was a very important part of neso american culture, the the ball game. And they play with the gods.