Author: Götz Naleppa
Genre: Audio Art / Sound Art
Production: Radio Educación, DKultur, RBB 2006/2007
Director: Götz Naleppa
Editing: Anja Gundelach (text research)
Recording date: May 2006
Music: Jorge Reyes
Length: 47"/ 51"
Sound and technology: Peter Avar

Participants: Leticia Méndez Intzin - Maya-K'iché
Juan Chuno Lopez Intzin - Maya Tent Valley
Pascual Pérez de Mesa: Maya Tent Valley
Guadalupe Asunción - Gutierrez Maya-Chol
Martin Engler - German
Jorge Reyes - Spanish

Content: After plants and animals, the first humans were created from clay. But they were too soft and disintegrated. The second humans were made of wood. But they forgot to honour their creators and were destroyed again. The third people were made entirely of maize, they thanked their creators and founded families and nations. So tells the Popol Vuh, the unique Mayan creation book, which was given to a missionary in the 16th century in Mayan language 'so that the lore of our people might survive'. Götz Naleppa has created a sound composition from German and Mayan-language text, jungle sounds from Mayan temple sites and music on prehispanic instruments, in which the cruel and cosmic-comic of creation can be experienced.

4 versions : Maya - German, Maya - Spanish, Maya - English
and 5.1(surround) version.

Remarks: Marulic Prize of the Croatian Broadcasting Corporation in May 2007;
Gold Award as "World's Best Radioplay" at the New York Festival 2008.