In the account of the Mayan Civilization, and the story that Popul Vuh had read of Mayan ancestors, states that of how the earth was created, as well as life. Tepeu and Gucumatz created the Earth, after talking one night, and decided it would be necessary. And that the Creator and Maker created humans, or beings, but destroyed them because they weren’t the way they wanted them to be. It fascinates me, how such an imaginative way of believing that the earth came about, was followed by many people. I mean, I cannot say the Mayans were ignorant, but in those days, people just wanted answers to something, and they usually accepted anything. I’m sure that the first person who shared that story, was someone of great power, therefore, the community had to believe it. For that greater person would never lie, in fact, he was more than likely sent from the God’s to share His knowledge.
A lot of creation stories seem to have the same amount of creativity. And of course we are all free to believe anything we want, but if we had today, a figure that a great majority of the population followed, and he for some reason, came up with an explanation for creation, we would more than likely follow it. It is easy to believe someone in power, someone we look up to and confide in, no matter how “imaginative” it may seem. For example, do we all remember a while back the Puerto Rican man who claimed he was both Jesus Christ and the AntiChrist. I mean, honestly, for me, I never even contemplated the idea of believing him. But many other people did. People who confided in him, and were desperate for answers, took his word and followed his teachings. Some of his believers, now even share his famed “666” tattoo, and show it in reference to this movement. To a lot of us, this all seems so silly, but to the people who are in the movement, truly believe this man, and all that he has to offer. There is link to his website, feel free to see what he is about.
One other thing I contemplated upon my reading of this chapter was the world wide, religious tolerance for the killing of another man for murdering someone else. Code of Hammurabi, Story of the Flood, The Covenant Code. All these set of laws encourage the killing of man for a crime. Do unto him, what he did unto others. Eye for an eye, heart for a heart. A lot of religious people that believe killing is wrong, and only God should decide when someone should die, agree that if a man kills a man, that the killer should be put to death, because that is what God would want. He would want to punish him. But it is all so contradicting. I mean, it is very easy to wish death upon someone, but who are we to decide that matter? Life is so precious, and regardless of how much harm a person does, we can’t not take that away. Even here, I feel a little hypocritical, because I have once before wished ill upon someone one, when my uncle was murdered. I’m sure if I find out something bad happened to the killers, I would be “happy”. But I’m a firm believer of Karma. So I know those people who hurt my family, will have their time, but killing him, wouldn’t do me any good. If we believe in such God, who are we to play his role? No one.
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