9. RELIGION.
Religion in ancient Mexico occupied a central and prominent place of life for all Anahuac inhabitants. In part by ancestral mysticism and spirituality; and partly because the social system was totally immersed in the moral and ethical religious values of Cem Anahuac. All activities: family life, government, agriculture, health, education, art, sport, etc. was intricately linked to religious aspects. As any ancestral religion, ours sought the transcendence of the spiritual "self" beyond death. The eternal life from consciousness.
“Where will I go?
Where will I go?
The path of the Dual God.
is by fate your house at the place of the gaunt?
Perhaps inside heavens?,
or the place of the gaunt is only here on earth?
...
Is it for a fact we live on earth?
not forever on earth: just a little here.
even if it is jade, it breaks,
if its gold it breaks,
even if it is quetzal feathers, they tear off,
not forever on earth: just a little”.
(Mexican folk songs)
To understand ancient Mexico, it is highly recommended to understand the ways of life and values of people called "indigenous" that until today jealously maintain millenarian values and spiritual principles, engendered since the agriculture invention, eight thousand years ago and in essence seek to get humans closer to the sacred and divine, the transcendent and immeasurable.
"Finally we reach the worship of God in an ideal self-chosen form. Hindus have represented God in
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