... is the source of the modern race of humans, the people of corn. e idea that the Classic Maya, like their colonial and modern descendants, saw themselves as “people of corn” is an important ... period,” the soul was home-less and an object of dread, unable to enter the afterlife. e feast, he observed, marked the end of this period and the celebration of the soul’s arrival into the land ... of mankind:Although it is not mentioned in the early colonial Popol Vuh, the resurrection of the maize god by the hero twins and the Chacs adds an important insight into the underlying meaning...