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The materiality of the failed forms of humans, particularly in comparison with the description of the successful formation of humans much later in the text, is worth mentioning here in relation to the above reference to their eventual roles as providers and sustainers. One of the early attempts at creating humans results in a creature whose body “desbarataba, y estaba blando, y apelmazado, y desmadexado, y se desmoronaba, y se humedezía … aunq’ hablaba, no tenía entendimiento, sino q’se rebenía en el agua, no era fuerte” (Ximénez Folio 3 Verso).