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===="The Primordial World"====

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! Original Kʼiche !! Literal English translation !! Modern English translation
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|'''AREʼ U TZIJOXIK'''<br>Waʼe.

Kʼa katzʼininoq,<br>
Kʼa kachamamoq,

Katzʼinonik,<br>
Kʼa kasilanik,

Kʼa kalolinik,<br>
Katolonaʼ puch u pa kaj.<ref name="auto2"/><ref name="auto3"/>
||'''THIS ITS ACCOUNT'''<br>These things.

Still be it silent,<br>
Still be it placid,

It is silent,<br>
Still it is calm,

Still it is hushed,<br>
Be it empty as well its womb sky.<ref name="auto2"/>
||'''THIS IS THE ACCOUNT'''<br>of when

all is still silent<br>
and placid.

All is silent<br>
and calm.

Hushed<br>
and empty is the womb of the sky.<ref name="auto4"/><ref>{{cite book|last1=Christenson|first1=Allen J.|title=Popol Vuh : The Sacred Book of the Maya|date=2007|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|location=Norman, OK|isbn=978-0-8061-3839-8|page=67|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rWr-_NXanhMC&q=popol%20vuh%20the%20sacred%20book%20of%20the%20maya&pg=PP1|access-date=19 October 2017}}</ref>
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