The third knowledge cycle, people have guarded—transmitted in "religions". The most important people’s knowledge is structured in a religion, so that it is easily accessible, the masses can govern their lives with the ethical and moral principles based on the wisdom that allow them to live in harmony, guide their existence towards higher consciousness levels, and thereby achieve spiritual transcendence.
To achieve an approximation to the ancient Mexico religion, first requires knowing the wisdom of the first knowledge circle, then trying to untangle the puzzle made by the Aztecs during the postclassical period through changes and transgressions by Tlacaelel[1] to the Toltec legacy. As well as those made by the spaniards during colonial times, through their biased written texts. And recently, by foreign researchers through their Eurocentric and Marxist vision, in which from four ceramic pieces (tepalcates) and a "class struggle", they intend to decipher an ancestral legacy of spiritual nature, which deals with the prodigious mystery of human existence.
The Toltec classical period religion, which was the most filtered Olmec creation and refined and spread throughout Cem Anahuac by the Toltecs, producing thousands of years of harmony where there were no wars, human sacrifice, nor Lordships[2]. Most of the spirituality and mysticism of native peoples and peasants of contemporary Mexico are more deeply rooted in concepts of sacred and divine, with which the Toltec taught to live in balance and harmony to the peoples of ancient Mexico.
The philosophical thought.
The philosophical knowledge of ancient Mexico is to date the most denied knowledge. The 16th century conquerors and colonizers asserted that the ancient grandparents were not
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- ↑ The Aztec Cihuacoátl that conducted the philosophical and religious reform of the Toltec philosophy and created a new mystic—materialistic—warrior ideology.
- ↑ Government form under which a “Señor or Señora” had political, economic and religious control over the people and predetermined territory. But that did not have a Kingdom characteristic.
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