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A second form of the couplet, the form that opened the Cuilapan origin myth,
is the "split couplet." In this poetic structure, four lines of text are joined so that
lines 1 and 3, and 2 and 4, form alternating parallels...
In the year and in the day
Of obscurity and utter darkness
Before there were years and days
The world being in deep obscurity
In the origin myth, the first and third lines emphasize time. The second and
fourth lines go on to characterize this time as one of darkness and obscurity.
For contemporary example, consider this second excerpt from the Prayer to Copal:
But you Christ
Are the one who saw
But you Christ
Are the one who knows (18)