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he by whom all move and breathe, he whose wisdom 
has projected (planned) the excellence of all that is on 
the earth, or in the lakes, or in the seas.” 
Here is a real parallelism to the opening verses of 
Genesis. It is God that made the heaven and earth. 
The Bible says: ‘‘In the beginning God created the 
heavens and the earth.’’ The Chaldean says: *‘‘ The 
heaven and earth and sea preceded the gods. Then the 
great gods were not made, any one of them, and order 
did not exist. Kar and Kisar were made first, and after 
them the lesser gods.’ The Chaldean teaches the 
eternity of the material universe. The Quiché agrees 
with the Hebrew in placing an intelligent being before 
matter, and says that he was the creator of all things. 
The Chaldean makes ‘‘the sea the producing mother of 
all things.” 
The Quiché account goes on: ‘There was as yet no 
man nor any animal, nor any green herb, nor any tree ; 
nothing was but the firmament.” 
The Hebrew says the earth was void, and places the 
firmament before the making of plants and animals. 
The Quiché story continues: ‘‘ The face of the earth 
had not yet appeared—only the peaceful sea, and all 
the space of heaven. All was silent. Nothing existed 
but the quiet waters, nothing but immobility and 
silence in darkness and night.” : 
In the next two paragraphs are introduced gods 
many, who speak to one another, and meditate. This 
speaking to one another and mutually taking counsel, 
is like the Hebrew narrative where God is represented as 
speaking, planning, and approving, and, in this last and 
grandest act of creatorship, as taking counsel of the 
Triune Godhead. ‘‘ Let us make man in our image and 
in our likeness.” 
In the Chaldean Genesis, the gods are dumb, they 
neither plan, nor purpose, nor speak. Like the forces 
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