And there seven sacred stones were born, seven warriors suspended in the spirit of the wind, seven chosen flames.
And they moved. And seven were also their graces, and seven their saints.
And it happened that countless graces were born from a grace stone. And it was the immensity of the nights, there where formerly was no God, because it had not received their God, which only by itself was within the grace, in darkness, there where was no heaven or earth." (Chilam Balam of Chumayel)
The ontological questions: where we came from, how the world was created, and how human beings were created, is answered in the fragments that have been able to survive the collapse of the Classical period to the decline of the Postclassical period, to the Mexica transgressions, the mistakes and ignorance of European writings of 16th century, to the malice of 20th century American researchers, to what has been found thus far, and to the "official history". These fragments are parts of a valuable jigsaw puzzle, where the total image represents the essence of our civilization, that is its philosophy.
The suns legend.
The Nahuatl legend of the five Suns is important for symbolically understanding the human evolution. With all the variations that exist it relates that at the beginning of time, when there was nothing and it was then that the Lord of the divine duality, Ometecutli, created Tonacatcihuatl, the Lady of “Our Flesh” and Tonacatecutli the Lord of “Our Flesh” so that they populated Earth. They reproduced and had four children: Red Tezcatlipoca, Black Tezcatlipoca, White Tezcatlipoca and Blue Tezcatlipoca. Then the Tezcatlipoca’s thought that they should create a great work, so they would be worshiped as gods. Tezcatlipoca Blue made a great bonfire, and the brothers’ gathered around and created human beings. Thus man was born and was called Huehuecoyotl and they created his wife. They ordered them to have children and they created the animals, mountains, seas, lakes and left as their mission to worship the
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