Towards the west of Tikal is the San Pedro River, where the sites of El Zotz and El Perú are located, which controlled this route that heads towards the Gulf of Mexico and have well-preserved architecture and inscribed stelae.
Let it be done like this! Let the void be filled! May this water withdraw and vacate [space], may the earth arise and be established! So they said. Let it lighten, let it dawn in heaven and on earth! There will be no glory or greatness in our creation and formation until the human creature, the formed man, exists. So they said.
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