Popol Vuh Analysis

The last section of Popol Vuh was really interesting because it talked about the first generation of Mayan tribes that existed. The lords always tried to create people that worshiped them. When they created humans that posses a lot of knowledge they were immediately against the whole idea because they felt threaten that one day the humans would take over their empire. Something that I found really confusing was that I didn’t understand why the Gods didn’t let the human’s posses incredible knowledge. Having great knowledge at their disposal would allowed the humans to make huge advancements in their brand new society. If that Gods felt that the humans were trying to rebel than they could of stop them easily with their great power. As a consequence, later on in the story other tribes start getting annoyed with the Gods because of the sacrifices that had to make. That is totally something understandable because the tribe’s people were suffering only to make the God’s happy. I don’t have a
For example, as new generations of tribes started appearing there was a lot of conflict between them. One reason why that was happening was because of the language barrier some tribes had. Although, they had the same common ancestor they grew in different parts and adopted a new language. Something that I have seen happen with my family because there is some people that only talk English and some Spanish. So sometimes it is really hard to communicate with each other because of the language barrier. Lastly, another theme that kept recurring through this last section was concept of jealousy. The tribes were always jealous of one another, always trying to be superior. Unfortunately, the tribes were only harming themselves with war, when they could have been helping each other in order to enhance their