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Five hundred years have passed without the dominant cultures wanting or being able to recognize, much less understand, the Anahuac philosophy. In the 16th century, eminent Western theologians debated whether Indians had or didn't have spirit. Today, several centuries later, there are those who think that there was not a Cem Anahuac philosophy, simply because there are no "scientific" basis to verify it. Dr. Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, in his book "Image of Tlaloc", questioned the belittling attitude of maintained by researchers about the cultures of the ancient Mexico.

“...Hence perhaps it will be admitted that those men were not "primitive rain worshipers, worried about the abundance or the loss of their crops, from the land possible fertility, but men who had a metaphysical knowledge of what exists.

A world concept that could explain their qualities as great mathematicians, astronomers, engineers, architects, sculptors that paradoxically, are universally recognized. Because everyone agrees; the ancient Mesoamerica inhabitants were remarkable engineers and architects; their works are there, the remarkable works of temples and plazas built, as if by miracle, in the midst of forests or on summits turned into plains, in marshes converted into land; with the amazing use of spaces and masses, as in a cosmic musical composition that alternate sound blocks with harmonious silence openings.

They also were incomparable mathematicians; as proved by their calculations, capable of understanding the notion of zero, the measurability of movement, according to before and after positions.

Also they were, as it is indisputably supported, powerful astronomers; the progress of the celestial bodies, laws that determine advancement and reverse movement of the planets, the cyclical progression of stars, deaths and resurrections of the Moon; were all known by reason and experience; so their time measurement techniques allowed them to calculate, within an accurate and thorough calendar, dates in unlimited spaces.

No one denies them the ability to create, in works later deemed considered art, symbolic or realistic images of supreme deities; clay, wood, metal, stone and colors managed by them, have come down to us in a multitude of objects whose plastic values transmitted very effectively the testimony of their willingness to be; they were therefore, as it is universally recognized, great architects, dominators of techniques that to date cannot yet be fully explained.

It is adequately assumed that they possessed a wise social organization well hierarchized, based on sound moral principles, in agreement with which they lived a common life in an orderly and safe fashion.

It is known that they spoke full languages with which they could express maximum abstraction concepts; enough languages to contain, directly and metaphorically, the finesse and strength of a language of science, of philosophy and poetic expressions.

All this and more, that it would not be easy to list here is supported by all as something obvious and likely.

And all that can be synthesized by saying that it is undoubtedly admitted that the ancient inhabitants of Mesoamerica were wise men, intellectually and morally able, connoisseurs of themselves and the world that hosted them. However, when it comes to consider the vision they had of this world and of themselves, the authors, almost unanimously, label them as rudimentary savages, busy only in considering the possibilities of fertile land by rain rendering fruits to sustain them.

Under the pretext that were farming communities, all their spiritual forces are reduced, and all their religious and metaphysical conceptions to a primitive desire for material feed that would be for them the core and the periphery of their existence.

"With a few exceptions, all authors have the same inexplicable judgment darkness."