Creation
The Popol Vuh, also known as the Book of Advice, is a fundamental part of Maya literature and starts with a chapter that looks a whole lot like Genesis 1 and 2. It's one of those Joseph Campell, parallel-development-of-myth type of things that makes you think about what we are as people. How we think we're very different but it all boils down to the same struggle to find out who we are and what the heck we are doing on this spinning ball of earth. And one way of dealing with the absurdity of it all is to make up a really cool story about the formation of the ground and the sky and and humans and all the other beings with whom we share the planet.
When the Spanish arrived, the Maya were living in what is now southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and El Salvador. Their civilization peaked in about 625 CE and their achievements include sculpture, heiroglyphics, arithmetic and astronomy. Some of the books that have survived are the Libros de Chilam Balam, the Popol Vuh/Libro de Consejo, and the Rabinal-Achi.
Check out part of chapter 1 of the Popol-Vuh and think about how the God of Genesis took the void and made the earth and the firmament: