Maya Wooden People Flood

myth:maya_wooden_people_flood

In the Popol Vuh, the gods' first peoples fail them: the mud people crumble, and the wooden people, who walk and speak but have no hearts and forget their makers, are destroyed in a great flood and a downpour of resin, while their own pots, grinding-stones, and animals rise up against them. A few flee as the monkeys of the forest. — Maya myth (Popol Vuh)