Select ALL the correct words in the passage.
entences in the story indicate that that the passage is an ex nihilo type of creation story?
first word a
the first discourse. There was as yet no man, nor any animal, nor bird, nor fish, nor crawfish, nor any pit, nor ravine, nor
greer
ee;
nothing was but the firmament. The face of the earth had not yet appeared-only the peaceful sea and all
the space of
neaven
e was
othing yet joined together, nothing that clung to anything else; nothing that balanced itself, that made the least rustling, that
made a sound in the heaven. There was nothing that stood up; nothing but the quiet water, but the sea, calm and alone in its boundaries: nothing
existed; nothing but immobility and silence, in the darkness, in the night.
Alone also the Creator, the Former, the Dominator, the Feathered Serpent-those that engender, those that give being, they are upon the water, like
a growing light. They are enveloped in green and blue; and therefore their name is Gucumatz. Lo, now how the heavens exist, how exists also he
of Heart of Heaven; such is the name of God; it is thus that he is called. And they spake; they consulted together and meditated; they mingled their
words and their opinion. And the creation was verily after this wise: Earth, they said, and on the instant it was formed; like a cloud or a fog was
beginning. Then the mountains rose over the water like great lobsters; in an instant the mountains and the plains were visible, and the cypress and
the pine appeared. Then
the Gucumatz filled with joy, crying out: Blessed be thy coming, O Heart of Heaven, Hurakan, Thunderbolt. Our work
and our labor has accomplished its end.
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