在《波波尔·乌》的创世故事里，众神经过好几次尝试才造出人类，这反映了玛雅人对玉米的特殊感情。考古学家发现，玉米大约在九千年前就在墨西哥南部被人类驯化，此后数千年里一直是中美洲人最重要的粮食。

In the creation story of the Popol Vuh, the gods try several times before they succeed in making people, which reflects the special place maize held for the Maya. Archaeologists have found that maize was first domesticated in southern Mexico about nine thousand years ago, and for thousands of years it was the most important food in Mesoamerica.

直到今天，危地马拉的许多玛雅后裔仍把自己看作「玉米人」。危地马拉作家阿斯图里亚斯以玛雅神话为灵感，在1949年写出长篇小说《玉米人》，他后来在1967年获得了诺贝尔文学奖。

Even today, many Maya people in Guatemala see themselves as people of maize. Inspired by Maya myths, the Guatemalan writer Miguel Angel Asturias wrote the novel Men of Maize in 1949, and in 1967 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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