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(00:47) They were our grandparents, our grandmothers, their story was repeated. They
came to tell it to those of us who live now. Their name will never be lost in the future.
We will never forget history. We, their children, will always keep it. 40 thousand years
ago, a group of human beings who migrated through northern Asia discovered a new
continent, America.

(01:24) As they continued their exodus in search of better climates, those people
arrived at the territory that we know today as Mexico, which researchers call
Mesoamerica. For a long time, that society led a simple existence dedicated to
hunting, fishing, and gathering. Little by little, they learned to grow corn and make
ceramic objects.

(02:00) They became sedentary and began to build permanent shelters. Around the
year 3000 before Christ, a great change occurred. That society became organized in a
complex way and the first states emerged. They began to build pyramids and a
monumental art appeared that made this dramatic change possible. According to
what archaeologists discovered, it was due to the irruption of a new people on the
American cheese scene.

(02:48) It is not known what they called themselves. Today, we know them as Olmecs.
It means men from the rubber coast. It is also not known what language they spoke
but they did have a developed writing system that was the root of Mayan writing. In a
few centuries the Olmecs integrated the Mesoamerican territory through trade and
other peaceful activities.

(03:17) As far as we know, they did not use violence, forging their immense empire on
cultural and religious principles. They were the creators of the cult of the ocelot
warrior that would remain until the fall of the Mexica empire from the Olmecs
onwards. The peoples of Mesoamerica continued to develop in various aspects of
culture such as architecture, sculpture, the plastic arts, goldsmithing, writing and the
making of codices, the calendar and mathematics in particular.

(04:13) Mathematics reached a prodigious development. They were based on the

concepts of 0 and order by positions, which were not known to Europeans until a
thousand years later. Where the character of Mesoamerican civilization is best
manifested is in religion. The traditional teachings of the indigenous sages were called
Toltec.
(04:41) I let you go, equity, a term that means the art of living. All Mesoamericans
together they became known as two keys the totality that legacy characteristic of
mexico to the world if in the old world they had the down hinduism and buddhism we
have our africa i the philosophical thought of ancient mexico if other civilizations had
south or star hermes wood to us we have quetzalcoatl the mesoamericans believed
that the universe is the product of two forces that balance each other to produce the
manifestation of things they believed that the

(05:36) creation of the world did not occur by magic but that it is a continuous and
evolutionary process governed by the law of the centuries the personification of these
forces was ometéotl whose name means divine dual trinity the universe and the
forces that sustain them were represented by the symbol of the ball game in which
two teams of players assumed the role of the gods and fought over a ball that was the
earth another way of representing the same beliefs was through a ceremony called
the florid war in which the

(06:23) individual faced himself in a combat against his weaknesses this cosmogony
focused on the feathered serpent a deity to which Nahuatl-speaking peoples called
Quetzalcoatl what does that name mean quetzalcoatl is the representation of the
forces of the universe the integration of matter and spirit light and darkness cold and
heat in the human being quetzalcoatl is the struggle between our animal tendencies
and the aspiration towards the sublime quetzalcoatl also symbolizes the succession
of cycles in nature because of that he was the pattern of the

(07:14) calendar the natives of this new Spain were governed by an instruction that
Quetzalcoatl left them which contains 20 characters multiplied by 3 in this matter the
ability of these people can be conjectured because it contains very delicate things
the pre-Hispanic calendar was based on a sacred year of 260 days which was related
to the year of nature producing a cycle of 52 years duration known as the new fire
cycle with this system the Mesoamericans achieved such accuracy that for their
calendar to be out of phase with the sky they would have had

(08:10) that pass more than 9 thousand years the history of mesoamerica remembers
the presence of numerous messengers of quetzalcoatl the most appreciated of them
was become an adult pitching our lord 1 cane a young toltec who became king of the
city of tula legend has it that topiltzín was born in a place near the town of tepoztlán in
the current state of morelos in the year 900 47 his birth was surrounded by miracles it
was announced to his mother by a fish when she was still a virgin as soon as he was
born the midwives tried to
(08:59) kill him by throwing him into the water but the child survived and was raised in
secret by his grandparents at the age of 13 the young topiltzín was sent to study in the
city of xochicalco in the year nine hundred and seventy-seven after christ he was
elected king on duty it is said he was a peaceful man who spent long hours of
meditation and penance in order to decipher the meaning of our existence he was
also a great head of state because he turned tula into a great city by building large and
beautiful buildings and

(09:44) developing the arts shortly after his rise to power topping sin received the visit
of some sorcerers who deceived him and drunk after this he felt so ashamed that he
abandoned the kingdom of tula and went to wander the earth for years the wandering
king visited the most diverse towns learning about the customs and beliefs finally he
arrived at the mayan city of chichen itza where he asked for refuge there they received
him sharing with him the holy secrets of the toltec due to his wisdom and nobility of
life the mayans gave him the name of

(10:28) kukulcan feathered serpent after some years among the mayans topiltzín
returned to central mexico coming to settle in the city of cholula and the great and
wonderful deeds of topiltzín are remembered among the indians they remember so
many miracles that i dare not make any statement about that however the story of his
life has impressed me greatly and has led me to believe that since the natives are
creatures of god capable of salvation he could not have left them without a prophet
and that prophet was topics the teachings of topiltzín were

(11:17) compiled in a book called huehuetla tool and ancient words today that book
has been lost but fragments remained among which we find teachings such as the
following the gift of being wise is a light makes wise the others strangers makes them
take heart does not go over things stops reflects observes avoid extremes stay in the
middle because only in the middle exists the social function the honorable condition
helping each other in need see that your flesh and your humanity are one according to
the legends in the year 999

(12:15) after christ topiltzín climbed a mountain and set himself on fire with fire
according to what they knew was the sky and the old people say that when he died for
four days he did not appear because he went to live among the dead but on the eighth
day the great star appeared that called the quetzal four they added that it was then
when he enthroned himself as if not but the departure of topiltzín was not definitive
according to a mexica poem some years later he appeared again after meeting with
his followers he
(13:01) told them not to be sad because he would return again to the earth when the
cycles were fulfilled then he headed to the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, threw away his
blanket embroidered with snakes, climbed onto it as if it were a raft and sailed toward
the eastern horizon exactly 520 years after the departure of toppings and the ships of
Hernan Cortez appear on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico carrying on their sails one of
the most important insignia of the Toltec and given the cross of the four directions the
Mesoamericans

(13:48) interpreted this fact as a messianic sign understanding that the dark half of the
cycle of the feathered serpent began the transcendence of Quetzalcoatl lies in his
message the era of Quetzal Corte is that of the advent of the soul of the unifying
center which is the very essence of all religious thought thanks to him Mesoamerica
knew a rare phenomenon in the history of humanity an immense empire forged by the
power of the spirit