"After the lying down sky was manifested, Hun-Nal-Ye, the First Father, entered the sky at the First-Three-Stone-Place. On 13 Ik, the last day of Mol, he made proper the Wakah Chan." (Palenque Temple of the Cross) The Wakah Chan is the "raised up sky", the World Tree with the heavens at its top and the Underworld at its foot. The raising of the sky is the focal point of the Maya account of Creation. This event is mirrored in the late summer sky every year as the Milky Way rotates to stand erect at dawn, becoming the World Tree. Find out how Linda Schele discovered that Creation is writ in the sky at Raising the Sky: The Maya Creation Myth and the Milky Way.