Paxil and Cayala
The places named in the Popol Vuh as the source of the yellow and white maize from which the first people were made. Their location is not known.
The People Made of Maize
The Popol Vuh of the K’iche’ Maya, from the copy made by Francisco Ximénez, as printed by Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (Paris, 1861) · a creation story; written down in Latin letters probably in the 1500s; the surviving copy made about 1700–1715
Pan Paxil, Pan Cayala u bi x-pe vi gana hal, zaki hal. Are ca qui bi chicop va qamol r’echa: Yac, Utïu, Qel, Hoh, e cahib chi chicop x-biyn u tzihel gana hal, zaki hal chique, chila que pe-vi pan Paxil, x-qut u beel Paxil. Are cut x-qui riqo riy echa are cut x-oc u tiohil vinak tzak, vinak bit, ha cut u quiqel, u quiqel vinak x-uxic, are x-oc cumal Alom, Qaholom ri hal.
From Paxil and Cayala, as the place is called, came the yellow ears and the white ears. These are the names of the animals who brought the food: Fox, Coyote, Parrot, and Raven. These four animals told the creators the news of the yellow ears and white ears that came from Paxil, and showed them the road there. There the creators found the food. This became the flesh of the people they made and modeled. Water became their blood, human blood. So the ears of maize entered into people, by the work of the Bearer and Begetter.