Reference: Popol Vuh

Hurricane makes a great rain.
 It rains all day and rains all night.
 There is a terrible flood
 and the earth is blackened.
 The creatures of the forest
 come into the homes of the doll-people.

"You have chased us from our homes
 so now we will take yours,"
 they growl.
 And their dogs and turkeys cry out,
 "You have abused us
 so now we shall eat you!"
 Even their pots and grinding stones speak,
 "We will burn you and pound on you
 just as you have done to us!"

The wooden people scatter into the forest.
 Their faces are crushed,
 and they are turned into monkeys.
 And this is why monkeys look like humans.
 They are what is left of what came before.

- The Popol Vuh (Mayan creation story)