Eduardo Galeano's trilogy MEMORIES OF FIRE is a kind of mythic history of Latin America. Here is part of his folk tale account of how human beings were created:
"In their dream about God’s dream the woman and the man were inside a great shining egg, singing and dancing and kicking up a fuss because they were crazy to be born. In God’s dream happiness was stronger than doubt and mystery. So dreaming, God created them with a song:
“I break this egg and the woman is born and the man is born. And together they will live and die. But they will be born again. They will be born and die again and be born again. They will never stop being born, because death is a lie.”
