The custom was that a young man, who wanted to have a family, should first be trained in what would be their adult life. Life in a small coastal community, made women and men less specialized and knew different family sustainment sources, of which of course, fishing was the fundamental basis of their diet.
Night Eagle accompanied his friend, fishing, hunting, collecting, weaving, and to collect rubber from a few special trees, through incisions they made, so that a white substance came out, which was later used for religious and sporting purposes as they used this material to make the balls used to play the ancient ball game. They planted corn, beans, squash and chili, less intensively, as the soil did not have a thick layer of soil, so it forced them to rotate crops in every crop, implying the slashing and burning, and long distances to walk with small areas for cultivation.
Therefore the community every five days took their products to a local market and every twenty to a regional market for trade, and could exchange salted fish and rubber, for all those products they needed and their community did not produce.
The commerce notion did not exist, as a wealth source. The spirit of exchange was to satisfy primary needs, and have the freedom to indulge body and soul, to the devotion of the Supreme divinity, represented in multiple devotions which were related to nature. The reason for existence was basically spiritual, this resulted in religious manifestations, which pervaded all spaces of everyday life and the way of expressing this spirituality was through "Flower and Song".
However there were a very small group of men, serving through a fraternity, performed the exchange of goods with remote and distant lands. This action was not precisely trade,
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