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Popol Vuh
Part II, Chapter 7 (4)
"My child, would you like that I sent you away to call my grandchildren from the ball-court?" she said to the louse. "'Messengers have come to your grandmother,' tell them; 'come within seven days, tell them to come, said the messengers of Xibalba; thus your grandmother told me to say,'" thus she told the louse. At once the louse swaggered off. Sitting on the road was a boy called Tamazul, or the toad. "Where are you going?" the toad said to the louse. "I am carrying a message in my stomach. I go to find the boys," said the louse to Tamazul. "Very well, but I see that you do not go quickly," said the toad to the louse. "Do you not want me to swallow you? You shall see how I run, and so we shall arrive quickly." "Very well," the louse said to the toad. Immediately the toad swallowed him. And the toad walked a long time, but without hurrying. Soon he met a large snake, called Zaquicaz. "Where are you going, young Tamazul?" said Zaquicaz to the toad. "I go as a messenger; I carry a message in my stomach," said the toad to the snake.
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