First Mother and First Father -- The First Mother and First Father
are the Creator Couple described in the Popol Vuh. All the other gods
who came into being were the children of this couple. The First Mother,
the Moon Goddess, was born six years before the First Father, Hun Nal
Ye. Also known as the Maize God and the Plumed or Feathered Serpent, the
First Father was responsible for a new creation of the cosmos
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