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eagle, for example. The internal war was one of the most important spiritual Toltec legacies.

The brotherhood instead was a military group of real fighters, because in their long journeys, sometimes they were attacked by hostile nomadic groups or beasts, which saturated the forests or the jungles. The smallest organization, was made up of five people, the next in size were twenty people and was the common size, although they could organize teams of multiples of twenty, like the fingers of a body, to form units of up to four hundred transporters.

In the group, Night Eagle was a guest and was entrusted to Fire Jaguar by Night light. Fire Jaguar was a very experienced transporter chief and renowned in the village by his intelligence, courage and for strength. They had told him that Night Eagle was a warrior and was searching for his people, would therefore be you provided all assistance so that along the way, he could find his people.

They began the journey; the transport unit was organized as a rattlesnake. The man at the front functioned as the eyes, was the explorer. An Archer, who was not carrying any loads to be light and quick in his movements, he was the snake fangs. Immediately behind the archer, was the head of the group or serpent head. Then were fifteen men carrying loads and in the end, was the man responsible for the rear, which represented the snake rattles and who periodically played a marine snail, which was the means of distance communication. It was fascinating to see how this group of people was perfectly organized as a single organism. They knew that the success of their sacred responsibility and their life itself, depended on the degree of organization and discipline, the team operated with.

The carriers when they went on trips to take and bring their valuable cargo; used clothes and painted their body in such a way that they easily mixed with the ambiance. This painting more than a ritual,