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we cannot vainly exalt the false and negative. We must analyze and understand the reasons why, a handful of criminals, could subjugate millions of native people. Knowing the truth will allow us to initiate the reevaluation path of our ancient civilization and end colonization.

There are seven thousand three hundred years of human development, diverse cultures and periods of incredible splendor, that we must consider for structuring the ancient grandparents cultural and historical heritage and consequently behave as "the sons of the sons of them", in facing the future.

"A deeper study of this society (mexica) would show without a doubt, deep contradictions, which would in turn explain the internal tensions it tried to relieve, occasionally in rituals. And the origin of these contradictions needs to be looked for in the overlay and the mixture of different cultures -the Toltec, transmitted to sedentary inhabitants of the Valley, and of the nomadic tribes which formed part the Aztecs – that contributed to shape the mexican civilization, just as it was at the time of its discovery." (Jacques Soustelle. 1955)

The mexica culture is then a mixture, sometimes harmonious and other discordant, between the ancient Toltec wisdom, full of spiritual and religious symbols, which at the time was in decadence, and the vigorous mexica culture, heirs of the ferrous will of material power, to survive in a semiarid and rugged world. The nomad warriors climbing and the sedentary peaceful peoples in decline. The mixture of mystical peoples and warrior peoples.

The mexica was a culture that could not conclude the syncretism and the mix between the two bequests that gave it life. In reality their time was very short (from 1325 with the founding of Tenochtitlan to 1521 with its fall only lasted 196 years) in relation to the seven and a half thousand years period that covers the Anahuac civilization, since the agriculture invention to the european invasion.