Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

2 - The War Of The Gods
"But the name of the place to which Balam Quitze, Balam Acab and
Iqui Balam came was the caves of Tula, seven caves, seven gorges.
The Tamub and Ilocab came there, too. This was the name of the town
where they received their gods ... In turn they left the gods behind and
Hacavitz was the first ... Mahucutah also left his god behind. But
Hacavitz was not hidden in the forest-Hacavitz disappeared into a bare
mountain ..."
And now comes the passage from the Popol Vuh already quoted. I
cannot resist quoting it again in this connection, because of its
astonishing contents:
"It is said that those ones were created and shaped, they had no father,
they had no mother, yet they were called men. They were not born of
woman, they were not produced by creators and Shapers, nor by Alom
and Caholom, only by a miracle, by magic were they created and
shaped ..."
A cuneiform tablet from Nippur, the town in Central Babylonia which
was the seat of the Sumerian god Enlil in the third millennium B.C.,
has this account of the origin of man:
"In those days, in the creation chamber of the gods, in their house
Duku were Lahar and Ashman formed ..."
Here it might be objected that the parallels between the text of the
Popol Vuh and the cuneiform inscription from Nippur are somewhat
far-fetched, for it is about 8,000 miles as the crow flies from Central
America, the homeland of the Mayas, to the fertile crescent between
the Euphrates and the Tigris, the home of the Sumerians! But this is no
carefully selected parallel from two cultural entities widely separated
in space and time. It is well known that the Old Testament, especially
the Pentateuch, contains a good- many Sumerian concepts. What is not
so well known is that the Old Testament and the Popol Vuh also have
just as many obvious features in common, and even more hidden ones.