knowledge. The philosophy engendered by the splendor of ancient Mexico remains alive, present, current and vibrant; and for now, we are an unconscious part of it. As the Greco-Roman of the western civilization in our days, that is separated by more than two thousand years and its essence is still alive in Europe. The problem is that due to the mental colonization, we cannot make it conscious.
This begs a question: why colonizing countries may have a direct connection with their philosophical past, such as europeans with Greco-Roman thought or Chinese and Japanese with Buddhist thought, and we Mexicans according to our colonizers, do not have any relationship with the philosophical thought developed for seven and a half thousand years.
The three circles of knowledge.
As it has been noted, knowledge in ancient Mexico was managed in three eccentric circles.[1] The word, which was at the center of the first circle, was only known to a small group of people. Wisdom is passed down from lip to ear. Just as in Tibet or in Egypt, knowledge men and women resided in those ancient buildings which today are called archaeological sites. These were knowledge centers reserved only for elite of specialized people in the ancient hermetic knowledge. These teachers lived apart from the rest and were respected by commoners or macehuales who lived in the villages.[2] Men and women of knowledge had developed a complex and abstract language of their wisdom, in which they transmitted and perpetuated their ancient knowledge through symbols and graphic representations, engraved in stone, wood, metals; painted codices, frescos and ceramics; embroidered on cloth with stones and feathers. This second circle of knowledge was conveyed through
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- ↑ From the center outwards.
- ↑ Generally the macehuales (commoners) did not have access to what we now call archaeological sites. These always represented sacred places. This millennial tradition of respect for the remains of these buildings remained alive until the first part of the 20th century. This explains why the fortune prospectors of the 19th century "discovered" the archaeological sites for the dominant culture, because the indigenous communities had always known of their existence and tried to keep them away from the colonizers and their permanent looting and destruction drive.
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