floods

its kinda odd, how i mentioned before about religious similarities.
i noted how a hurricane hit the mayan wood people that destroyed the majority of them.
apparently i was wrong. hurricane was the name of the god who inflicted a flood upon the people.
a tidbit, if you will:

"[Man was] not competent, nor did they speak before the builder and sculptor who made them and brought them forth, and so they were killed, done in by a flood:
There came in a rain of resin from the sky.
There came the one named Gouger of Faces: he gouged out their eyeballs.
There came Crunching Jaguar: he ate their flesh.
There came Tearing Jaguar: he tore them open.
They were pounded down to the bones and tendons, smashed and pulverized even to the bones. Their faces were smashed because they were incompetent before their mother and their father, the Heart of the Sky, named Hurricane.
The earth was blackened because of this; the black rainstorm began, rain all day and rain all night."

so i guess most of that "There came..." stuff wasn't really necessary, but i like how explicit they are. but isn't it weird that it seems like every religion has a storm of biblical proportions (heh) that wipes out those who were immoral and unworthy?
however, in this mayan story, no one was really saved and all the animals and household items turned on their masters.

oh. and on a tangent, they try to explain the wooden people turned monkeys, but i still don't really get it:

"Such a scattering of the human work, the human design. The people were ground down, overthrown. The mouths and faces of all of them were destroyed and crushed. And it used to be said that the monkeys in the forests today are a sign of this. They were left as a sign because wood alone was used for their flesh by the builder and the sculptor.
So this is why monkeys look like people: they are a sign of a previous human work, human design--mere manikins, mere woodcarvings."

yeah... that doesn't help me at all.

anyway. back to similar bible shit. there was this lord named Zipacna who was the first son of Seven Macaw, who pretty much was the badass god that started it all. Zipacna looked like a caiman but was just a boy and stronger than shit.
one day he was helping out Four Hundred Boys (which i guess they make as one entity) who depised Zipacna's abilities, so they plotted to kill him.
they had him dig a fat hole for him. and after doing so, they planned to drop a large log in on top of him and kill him.
but Zipacna suspected something, so he built a side tunnel to hang out in while the log was dropped.
So Four Hundred Boys did their thing, dropped the log in on Zipacna, who let out a yelp to trick them. then Four Hundred Boys made sure they waited THREE days before checking out his status. they thought Zipacna was dead cuz he cut off hair and nails and gave it to ants to take back to their nest.
so after three days, they took out the log, and it looked like Zipacna was no more. so Four Hundred Boys got drunk. and while they were partying in their hut, Zipacna jumped on it and flattened all of Four Hundred Boys.

somewhat of a resurrection story... maybe that's a bit of a stretch.......

now i'm onto a story about the Blood Moon Maiden who went to this tree where one of the twin god's, One Hunahpu's, skull was placed in the crotch of a tree after procuring the wrath of the gods from Xibalba (hell) ("X" in mayan is pronounced as an "SH"). it was only the defleshed skull that remained of this god, but still, somehow, it contained spittle, and spit on the maiden when she went to visit this mystic tree.

i thought this was leading up to an adam/eve-type story, but it ended up that instead of eating the fruit that only grew because of the head, the spittle actually made the maiden pregnant... immaculate conseption!
along with biblical similarities, this is starting to sound a bit more like greek mythology.
at least no one's been emasculated yet.

nothing biblical with these other stories, but they're interesting. a story of how Seven Macaw (the father) meets his demise. those twins (one of whom's skull is in the tree) shot Seven Macaw in the jaw and messed up his teeth. when the twins went to grab him, he tore Hunahpu's arm off.
but later on when Seven Macaw "was yelling his mouth off because of his teeth,"
the twins devised a plan to get their grandparents to pull out his teeth (which were actually jewels) and also his eyes (which were metallic). for some reason, doing this killed him. whatever...

Next was the death of Zipacna. Seven Macaw's first born. ok. this one isn't too exciting. he was hungry and wanted food, so those twins trapped a fatty crab inside a mountain. they convinced Zipacna to go in after it. and when he did, he got stuck and turned to stone. apparently Zipacna was dubbed "the maker of mountains", so that was kinda ironic.

Seven Macaw's second son, however, was "the breaker of mountains". his name was Earthquake. again, this guy was hungry so the twins blowdarted some birds and roasted them up good. the one that they cooked for Earthquake they coated with gypsum, "baked earth". for some reason this made Earthquake weak and made him virtually useless. the twins eventually tied Earthquake up and buried him. and that was the end of him...
i guess another irony that earth defeated "the breaker of mountains".

i'll get back to you about the Blood Moon Maiden if anything interesting comes of her story. but i guess none of this is really all that intriguing in as many pieces as i'm giving it in....