"It is surprising not to find the background of the main factors of a civilization whose rules, in essence will remain intact until the Spanish conquest. But if it is difficult to admit that cultural traits —as some architectural features, the orientation of their buildings or the particularities of their sculpture and painting— have been able to assume, from their inception, a definitive character, it is even more difficult to imagine the emergence, in a perfect state, of the thought system which is at its base." (Laurette Séjourné. 1957)[1]
If the Olmec culture is the Mother culture, the Toltec culture represented the wisdom flourishing of ancient Mexico wisdom and is the most valuable legacy of our old grandparents, just as the Greco Roman period was for Europe. After it’s mysterious and until today, inexplicable disappearance, the peoples who succeeded them in the postclassical period, always tried to place their origin on the Toltec lineage. The Toltec and Quetzalcoatl are the wisdom and deepest spirituality expression of our civilization.
"As Quetzalcoatl teaches that human greatness lies in the consciousness of a higher order, its effigy cannot be other than the symbol of that truth and the serpent feathers representing it, should speak of the spirit which allows man - a man whose body, as that of a reptile, crawls in dust – to know the superhuman joy of creation, thus constituting an ode to the sovereign inner freedom. This hypothesis is confirmed, in addition, by the Nahuatl symbolism, in which the snake shapes matter - its association with earth divinities is constant - and the bird, to heaven. Quetzalcoatl is therefore the sign which contains the revelation of the celestial origin of human beings... Thus, far from invoking coarse polytheistic beliefs, the Teotihuacan term evokes the concept of
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- ↑ Laurette Séjourné (1911 - May 25, 2003) was a French archeologist and ethnologist best known for her involvement in the emancipation of the Mexican Indian and her study of the civilizations of Teotihuacan and of the Aztecs. She became known to a wider public through her 1957 publication on the cosmology and religion of the Toltecs and Aztecs, translated into English as Burning Water: Thought and Religion in Ancient Mexico. While betraying the influence of the historian of religion, Mircea Eliade, its main focus is the figure of Tollan's priestly king, Quetzalcoatl, and his teachings.
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