For the ancient grandparents, humans had two very important tasks in the world. To maintain the balance of the forces that sustains the universe and world humanization. These commitments were the highest responsibility of our civilization. There is no outwards path that has not been traveled inwards. Therefore, "balance" must be achieved first inside the individual and then in the surrounding environment focused on "the four directions". The ancient grandparents divided the human being and the universe in four parts through two imaginary axes, longitudinal and transverse, with the navel as center and the cross. These four parts or paths of human existence and universe interact as opposing and complementing pairs. Achieving a balance between the pair of complementing opposites means elevation. The loss of balance therefore means degradation.
"Harmony" was the fundamental achievement in the ancient grandparents’ philosophy. Harmony was achieved by means of "balance" and this in turn was built through the "measure". Harmony, balance and measure, were the highest achievement of the Anahuac civilization. In the interior plane of the human being, to forge an "own face and a true heart". In the exterior plain, to "humanize" the world.
The individual and social responsibility of existence was based on these values and principles. We can see in the cultures of ancient Mexico, how harmony is associated with beauty and it in turn to the divine and sacred. Balance is constantly and repetitively present from the concept of the "pair of complementing opposites", which when balanced are humanized. And the measure is associated to the concept of "mecatl" or mecate, "with which the world and things are measured". For this reason, Calmécac literally means "the House of the measure" and Olmec is "the measure of movement".
Somehow, these concepts are still present in the most intimate "being" of the culture that we call today "Mexican", especially in indigenous and rural communities, as is the most important legacy inherited from the ancient grandparents.
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