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follow the first words, the first eloquence.
There is not yet one person, one animal, bird, fish, crab, tree, rock, hollow, canyon, meadow, forest. Only the sky alone is there; the face of the earth is not clear. Only the sea along is pooled under all the sky; there is nothing whatever gathered together. It is at rest ; not a single thing stirs. It is held back, kept at rest under the sky.
Whatever there is that might be is simply not there: only murmurs, ripples, in the dark, in the night. Only the Maker, Modeler alone, Sovereign Plumed Serpent, the Bearers, Begetters are in the water, a glittering light. They are there, they are enclosed in quetzal feathers, in blue- green.
Thus the name, “Plumed Serpent.” They are great knowers, great thinkers in their very being.
And of course there is the sky, and there is also the Heart of Sky. This is the name of the god, as it is spoken.
And then came his word, he came here to the Sovereign Plumed Serpent, here in the blackness, in the early dawn.... ThunderboltHurricane comes first, the second is Newborn Thunderbolt, and the third is Sudden Thunderbolt.
    So there were three of them... 7
    By now, this powerful, evocative imagery should recall the image of Vishnu at Angkor Wat, superintending the cosmic tug-of-war of the great naga serpent in the Milky Ocean.
    Yet, this appears half a world away, in an entirely different culture!
    Note too, that the topological metaphor of a primordial trinity is preserved. Everything begins as an emptiness “under the sky” and there is not yet any differentiation within it: “there is not yet one person, one animal” and so on. There is only an empty sky, and pooled water at rest beneath it. The only thing existing is Sovereign Plumed Serpent and a mysterious reference to “Bearers” and “Begetters in the water” who are described as “great knowers, great thinkers in their very being,” who are later found, just like Vishnu, to be manifestations of Sovereign Plumed Serpent.
    The Popol Vuh is telling us, in other words, the same thing we saw at Angkor Wat: there is a primordial “nothing”, Sovereign Plumed Serpent, and then there is a primordial “trinity,” of endless indistinct “sky” and below it a “sea”, and the implied common surface between the two. Nothing else whatsoever, at this juncture, exists, except a faint “murmuring” and “rippling” in the night, implying somehow that sound , frequency , vibration give rise to all the fecund distinctions and variety to follow.
    Indeed, at the very beginning, the Popol Vuh informs us that “This is the beginning of the Ancient Word, here in this place called Quiché. Here we shall inscribe, we shall implant the Ancient Word, the potential and source for everything done ...in the nation of the Quiché people.” 8 Note that the Ancient Word is something to be implanted , again recalling the imagery of Vishnu ejaculating into the primordial sea, which was but himself under another manifestation. Note too the very suggestive notion that this Word, this sound or vibration as it were, is “the potential and source for everything done,” that is, that all the diversity that arises, arises from this pure and infinite potential.
    Consequently, it would appear that the Popol Vuh , in its very opening pages, is suggesting the very same topological metaphor of the physical medium that we encountered in chapter three, in connection with Vishnu’s “trifurcation” and differentiation of himself as a primordial Nothing, and that we also discovered operative in some passages in the Hermetica , which were of Egyptian provenance, only here the metaphor of that “differentiated Nothing” is even more clearly suggested by the notion of an endless sky and endless sea, in neither of which nothing else exists; there is only the sky, the sea, and the surface touching, differentiating, or bracketing, both; again we have three entities of yet another primordial triad.
    Thus, our chart