their community, with the "dear mother" (Earth) and the Supreme divinity, "that for who they lived".
"The hypothesis I am raising meets the purpose of testing the unity of our original culture, unity that so far has been assumed without concern for the evidence that support it; in addition, it comes to explain, among other things, the irrepressible dynamism characteristic of that culture.
Because accordingly, men as the engine and world creation starting material, assumes thereafter his creative role as a permanent obligation. Creation is not an instantaneous event, but an endless process. Men have to comply without interruption, taking upon him the duty of walking toward perfection what was initially created.
This explains, within the basic cultural unity, the dynamic manifestations range. It explains, for example, the differences between the urbanization of La Venta and that of Palenque or Monte Alban or Tenochtitlan. A single concept directs them: the human obligation to ally themselves to the gods to create, maintain and perfect the existing. Nothing should remain in the state in which it was created. Everything, thanks to the action and even the sacrifice of men, must be in perpetual upward movement toward its perfection, through constant efforts ruled by human consciousness that higher values are necessarily achievable". Ancient Mexican Cosmogony. Iconographic and textual hypothesis. (Cosmogonía Antigua Mexicana. Hipótesis iconográfica y textual”). Rubén Bonfiaz Nuño. UNAM, México. 1995.
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