The Popol Vuh identifies Tohil as a manifestation of Huracan, Heart of Sky. The K'iche' patron deity embodies the creator god's fire and storm power in a form accessible to human worship.
Q'uq'umatz, Tepeu, and Huracan fashioned the first four men from white and yellow maize after failed attempts with mud and wood, grinding the corn and mixing it with water to form Balam-Quitze, Balam-Acab, Mahucutah, and Iqui-Balam.
Huracan, Q'uq'umatz, and Tepeu spoke the world into being over the primordial waters, raising the earth and establishing Yax Che, the great ceiba world tree, as the cosmic axis connecting heavens, earth, and underworld.
In the Popol Vuh, the creator gods — Huracan, Q'uq'umatz, Tepeu, Alom, and Qaholom — consulted the divine daykeepers Xpiyacoc and Xmucane, who cast maize kernels and coral seeds to divine that corn was the substance from which true humans should be fashioned.
Huracan, Heart of Sky, directed Hunahpu and Xbalanque to defeat the arrogant Vucub-Caquix, who falsely claimed to be the sun and moon, as told in the Popol Vuh.
Huracan directed the creation of the Four Progenitors and then clouded their perfect vision so they would not rival the gods. Heart of Sky oversaw every stage of their making from maize dough.
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