Toad

“Tell it then,” they said to the falcon.

Thus he vomited the great snake.

“Speak!” they said again to the snake.

“All right,” he replied. And so he vomited the toad.

“What is your errand? Speak!” the toad was told.

“My message is here in my belly,” said again the toad.

Then he tried to throw up, but he did not vomit. His mouth just drooled. He tried,
but nothing did he vomit. Thus the boys wished to beat him.

“You are a deceiver,” he was told.

Then they squashed his rear end with their feet, crushing the bones of his backside
with their feet.

Again he tried, but he just salivated at the mouth. So they pried open the mouth of
the toad. It was pried open wide by the boys. They searched in his mouth and found that
the louse was merely stuck in front of the toad’s teeth. He was just in his mouth. He
hadn’t really been swallowed. It was merely as if he had been swallowed.

Thus the toad was defeated. As a result, it is not obvious what food was given to
him. He could not go fast; thus he merely became spoil for the snake.

“Speak!” the louse was told.


- Popol Vuh