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increase.”
    “Let it be this way: now we’ll take them apart just a little , that’s what we need. What we’ve found out isn’t good. Their deeds would become equal to ours, just because their knowledge reaches so far. They see everything,” so said
the Heart of Sky, Hurricane,
Newborn Thunderbolt, Sudden Thunderbolt, Sovereign Plumed Serpent,
Bearer, Begetter, Xiyacoc, Xmucane, Maker, Modeler
    as they are called. And when they changed the nature of their works, their designs, it was enough that the eyes be marred by the Heart of Sky....
        And such was the loss of the means of understanding, along with the means of knowing everything, by the four humans. The root was implanted....
    And then their wives and women came into being. 17
    This passage requires careful scrutiny and unpacking in order for the full weight of its implications to sink in.
1) Note first of all that, just as in the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel, 18 there is no notion of morality in play, for the activities of mankind are not perceived so much as immoral but rather as an implicit threat to the power of the gods “just because their knowledge reaches so far.” One is reminded of the biblical reason given for the confounding of languages at the Tower of Babel, for if the Tower was completed, mankind would be able “to do whatever it imagined to do;”
     
2) This human knowledge, in so far as the Popol Vuh is concerned, relates somehow to mankind’s cosmological knowledge, to his understanding of the physics of the cosmos and being able to sight “the four corners in the sky, on the earth.” Given thetopological metaphor we have examinedpreviously, the metaphor here seems to be suggesting thatmankind’s knowledge was of the very way the physical medium itself was constituted and of how it operated. This too is mirrored in the biblical Tower of Babel story, where the purpose of the Tower is to “reach unto heaven;” 19 again implying that somehow human knowledge was of a deep physics;
     
3) In the Popol Vuh , all this knowledge and deep insight is coupled somehow to what can only be described as mankind’s primordial “masculine homosexual-androgyny,” a fact that seems also to be reproduced in the way that this creature refers also to the Sovereign Plumed Serpent, or God, both as grandmother and grandfather, as an androgyny; God, in other words, is viewed in the same way and this, somehow, suggests that in mankind, in his primordial masculine homosexual-androgynous constitution, had knowledge of some characteristic of the physical medium that he would not otherwise have had; this leads to the next point:
     
4) The Popol Vuh makes it very clear that this primordial “masculine homosexual-androgyny” had to be divided “just a little” in order to eradicate the threat posed by the knowledge he possessed in that original state; the division of the sexes is accomplished, and at this point “their wives and women came into being,” causing procreation and the corresponding loss of human knowledge. This seems to imply that in mankind’s primordial state, immortality was the natural consequence, and therefore with it, a commensurately wide knowledge. It is worth noting that a vaguely similar idea is even suggested in the biblical account of the Tower of Babel moment, where it says “And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one .” Again, the solution is to divide humanity; in the biblical instance, it is division through multiplication of languages; in the Mayan instance, it is division by the division of the sexes;
     
5) And lest it be thought that this primordial view of mankind as a kind of “masculine homosexual-androgyny” is far removed from the world of the Old Testament half a world andcenturies away, a closer look at Gen 1:27 is in order. In the standard English translation the verse reads “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; make and female created he them.” But in the