In the beginning there were two brothers, Sukuyum and Nohotsakyum, and they were the main gods. Sukuyum is older and maybe more powerful. These two lived in the sky in a house, but Sukuyum wanted a house for himself. He ordered his younger brother to make him a house, but would not help him make it because he did not want to. Nohotsakyum made a round ball of masa for making tortillas. That is our world and the house of Sukuyum, who lives in the middle of it. Where he lives there is much fire, and he orders earthquakes and volcanos. Evil persons who kill other people and who lie and steal go down where he lives after they die. He burns them and punishes them by running hot irons up their penises. 

Nohotsakyum made the world and everything in it. First he made the land and then the water, and when he was finished he put in it all the things people would need. First he had to make the sun to have some light so he could work, and then came the moon and the stars. Of the things that grow, he made them in this order; maize, bananas, garlic, beans, and cane. After that there was no special order, because he made plants and vines and trees, but he made rice before he made fruit.

When the earth was all ready, he made men. He made them by peoples. First came the Kalsia, which is to say, people of the monkey; then came the Koho-ka, people of the peccary; then Ka-puk, or people of the tiger; then the Chan-ka, or people of the pheasant. This is how he made people. He made them out of clay, men, women, and children--giving them eyes, a nose, and all other parts, then he put the clay on the fire where he was cooking tortillas. The clay got hard from the fire, and the people lived. After they had life, he gave each people a place on earth to live. He had to make clay babies and children of all sizes so that there would be someone to people the earth after the first adults died.

When he finished making men, he made animals in the same way. He made them in this order: tiger, snakes, monkey, howling ape, peccary, mountain deer, pheasant, wild turkey, and then the other animals and birds in no order.

Nohotsakyum and his wife Nainohotsakyum and all the good dead people and Santos of various kinds live in the sky where there is land with roads and trees like here, but no animals and no chickens. When the world comes to an end by being eaten by the big jaguar, everyone will go up there and live like them, and work in the corn patches, smoke cigars, and eat tortillas and beans.