Popol Vuh by Francisco Ximénez — Read

This then, is the beginning of the conception of humanity, when that which would become the flesh of mankind was sought.

Then spoke they who are called She Who Has Borne Children and He Who Has Begotten Sons, the Framer and the Shaper, Sovereign and Quetzal Serpent: "The dawn approaches, and our work is not successfully completed. A provider and a sustainer have yet to appear—a child of light, a son of light. Humanity has yet to appear to populate the face of the earth," they said.