ABSTRACT
Then the sky would fall, it would fall down upon the earth, when the four gods, the four Bacabs, were set up, who brought about the destruction of the world. Then, after the destruction of the world was completed, they placed a tree to set up in its order the yellow cock oriole. Then the white tree of abundance was set up. A pillar of the sky was set up, a sign of the destruction of the world; that was the white tree of abundance in the north. Then the black tree of abundance was set up in the west for the black-breasted picoy to sit upon. Then the yellow tree of abundance was set up in the south as a symbol of the destruction of the world, for the yellow-breasted picoy to sit upon, for the yellow cock oriole to sit upon. Then the green tree of abundance was set up in the center of the world as a record of the destruction of the world.
