TRANSACTIONS 
OF THE 
SCIENTIFIC SECTION. 
NOVEMBER 18, 1885—THIRTY-NINTH REGULAR MEETING. 
Hight members and twenty-five guests present. 
THE QUICHE STORY OF CREATION. 
AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE SCIENTIFIC SECTION, 
BY CHARLES B. WARRING, Ph. D., CHAIRMAN. 
My study of the Hebrew cosmogony, has led me to ex- 
amine the claims of the Chaldean story to be the source 
from which it was obtained. A careful examination of 
the internal evidence has led me to the conclusion that 
this claim has no real foundation. 
When reading the third volume of Bancroft’s great 
work, The Pacific Races, my attention was directed 
to the Quiché account of creation, when, to my surprise, 
I found greater and much more numerous resemblances 
to the Hebrew story than were presented by the Chaldean 
myth. These were not such as would strike the reader 
at first glance—the opposite was true—but were in the 
underlying thought and in the order of the two narra- 
tives. 
This is the cause and the apology for bringing the 
Quiché cosmogony before the section. 
Among the nations to the southeast of Mexico against 
whom the Spaniards turned their arms after the con- 
quest of that empire, was a people called the Quichés, 
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