Reader Response to Popol Vuh Chapter 3-5

I found the reading to Popol Vuh chapters 3-5 to be very interesting because of the way in which the text relates to other religions around the world.  I grew up studying the christian belief in my family. The Popol Vuh is very similar to the old testament of the book of Genesis. The creator and maker destroyed the wooden people in the story because they were bad.  The wooden people treated the animals, the plates, the pots, and the grinding stones terribly.  Therefore, because of this treatment, the animals and objects got to return the abusive behavior.  The character Vucub-Caquix was too proud of a man, he taught his family to act in the same way.  They were evil to the earth and therefore the Gods destroyed he and his family.  This story was very easy to relate to The Great Flood.  In The Holy Bible, God did not like how the people were acting, therefore he created this great flood to destroy the earth and the people only leaving the animals and Noah to survive because they were the only ones worthy enough.  The Popul-Vuh is important to world history and religiously educational.  It is a story that I will never forget and I am glad to have read because it gave me a view of the latin world and how it was created.  I am a Latin America Studies major, therefore I may be biased, but I will further have more of an eye for the culture and the background of why the culture follows certain beliefs.