Select ALL the correct words in the passage.
Which three sentences in the story indicate that that the passage i: an ex nihilo type of creation story?
Behold the first word and the first discourse. There was : yet no man, nor any animal, nor bird, nor fish, nor crawfish, nor any pit, nor ravine,
nor green herb, nor any tree; nothing was but the firmament. The face of the earth had not yet appeared- only the peaceful sea and all the space
of heaven. There was nothing yet joined together, nothing that clung to anything else; nothing that balanced itself, that made the least rustling,
that made a sound in the heaven. There was nothing that stood up; nothing but the quiet water, but the sea, calm and alone in its boundaries:
nothing existed; nothing but immobility and silence, in the darkness, in the night.
Alone also the Creator, the Former, the Dominator, the Feathered Serpent-those that engender, those that give being, they
upon the water,
like a growing light. They are enveloped in green and blue; and therefore their name is Gucumatz. Lo, now how the heavens exist, how exists
also the Heart of Heaven; such is the name of God; it is thus that he is called. And they spake; they consulted together and meditated; they
mingled their words and their opinion. And the creation was verily after this wise: Earth, they said, and on the instant it was formed; like a cloud or
a fog was its beginning. Then the mountains rose over the water like great lobsters; in an instant the mountains and the plains were visible, and
the cypress and the pine appeared. Then was the Gucumatz filled with joy, crying out: Blessed be thy coming. O Heart of Heaven, Hurakan,
Thunderbolt. Our work and our labor has accomplished its end.
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