The story of Popol Vuh and the book of Genesis are almost the same. These stories have so much in common you would think they were written by the same person. They also have their differences that help tell them apart. The similarities and differences suggest some things about myths around the world. First, the stories have multiple similarities between them. “Then the mountains were separated from the water” (pg. 524) which is the same as “let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear” (genesis1 9). They both are stating that God said let there be land and the land just rose from under the water and separated it into two parts. The way they created human kind is the same in both stories. They look at what