The Mayan Popol Vuh associates the flood, with ‘much hail, black rain and mist, and indescrible cold’.10 It also says that this was a period when ‘it was cloudy and twilight all over the world … the faces of the sun and the moon were covered.’11 Other Maya sources confirm that these strange and terrible phenomena were experienced by mankind, ‘in the time of the ancients. The earth darkened … It happened that the sun was still bright and clear. Then, at midday, it got dark …12 Sunlight did not return till the twenty-sixth year after the flood.’
