At The Beginning

At the Beginning

Everything written about the continent of America before 1419 is lie. The history of this continent began 40 millennia. A time where there where no borders on Earth. Humans had a nomad existence with strong ties with Mother Nature. Little by little, hunters and gathers from continent of Asia journeyed in to the continent of America following pray. [1]
Even thought they had a “rudimentary” way of existence, these people had sophisticated concept of the Universe. What we now call Shamanism[2]. A Shaman society valued harmony with Mother Nature and the understanding of the exploration of cognitive powers by means of conscience exercises and respectful use of plants that alter it.
Eight thousand years ago humans became sedentary and shaman values lost virtual. A god called “Father”, who preferred his disciples as men, replaced the direct relationship with Mother Nature. Cognitive powers replaced by symbolic rituals conducted by salaried priests. These phenomena occurred mostly in Euro-Asia by fortunate factors as much as intentional ones. In America it was more in tune. The first imperial states in organizing in America where over thousand years ago with their arrival of the tihuanacos to Tawantinsuyu (Andean zone) and the Teotihuacán’s to the Anawak[3] (central Mexico). Even thought the Shamans ways survived and prospered co-hebetating with organized religion. Respecting each other’s areas of influence, at times working together for the common good.
The people of America share a higher level of culture that deserves deeper study. They where able to materialized the idea of a civilization and maintaining a strong bond with Earth. Were diversity in opinion did not lead to wars of faith; where a lack of material wealth did not limit spiritual expression and creative vision. Institutions where designed to inhibit idolizing. Contrary to public opinion, these cultures where not primitive, fantastic idolizer of the elements. As an author a testifies, “… They had a metaphysical knowledge of existence. They spoke a copious language and where able to express concepts of maximum abstraction, sufficient as to maintain its fines and solidity as a scientific language, philosophy and poetic. (They) had a concept of the world that explains its qualities and a great mathematics, astronomical, engineering, architectural, and sculptural.” (Bonifaz Nuño, Mexico Profundo).
The combined scientific, artistic, and social achievements of the people of Anawak was called Toltekayotl, Toltequity, a nawatl[4] term formed from the root Tol, stem, that with time it became to mean culture[5]. The first nawatl dictionary was drawn mid XVI by Father Molina, it translates Toltekayotl as “art of living”.
Toltequity is the legacy from Mexico to the world. If the Eurasians cultures had the Tao, and Hinduism and Buddhism. In the Americas we have Toltekayotl. If other civilizations had Hermes and Buda, we had Quetzalcoatl and corn. … More then a culture or ethnicity being “Toltec” was a level of knowledge from wise people from antique Mexico. Teotihuacán was the center of and generator of Toltekayotl in all of Anawak. (Guillermo Marin, True History of Profound Mexico).
A scientific assembly in 1941 defined and widespread an interpretation of the word Toltec[6]. The term Toltec has been associated since with the dwellers of the city Tula in the Mexican state of Hidalgo. However, Tula and Tollan is a Nawatl word that means Capitol. As we can appreciate in the next definition of a mexica codex, anybody who accepted the Toltequity principals was considered a Toltec: The Toltec is a wise, he is a light, a fire, and a torch with no smoke. It makes foreign faces guru. It makes them take heart. It does not pass over things, it stops, reflects, observes… This way it transforms in to a Toltec. If you obtain this habit and custom to consult everything with your heart. (Matritense Codex).
In an effort to be faire to the original concept of these people. The term Toltec will describe all the inhabitants of Anawak, from the Olmes two millennia before Christ, to the mexica that ended this history to the pipiles of Nicaragua to the Tarahumara in the northern frontiers. The Toltec approach is composed of ideological formulas that led to a healthy development of civilization. It was based in three pillars that govern other religions of the earth. These are:
First: An archetype messiah that was named Quetzalcoatl, Feather Serpent.
Second: Life’s rules contained in a sacred book, today lost. Named Teomashtili, Divine Book.
Third: A spiritual initiation, whose trustee received the title of Masewalli o macehual, deserving by auto sacrifice.
The foundation of Toltequity was Quetzalcoatl, the feather serpent. He was not a tribal God, but the Supreme Being, the same that in other traditions of the world received the name of Yahweh, Allah, Brahma, Tao, etcetera. He represented totality, since the serpent alluded to the material Universe and the feathers to the energy of the cosmos. It was also a proposal to action, since the metaphor of the serpent that undertakes flight transcendence. More then a God, from the western term, Quetzalcoatl is the image of our potential as humans to expand and become gods.
[1] Discoveries made in the Mohave Desert and other dig sights show that America had native home sapiens like species extinct over 28,000 years ago.
[2] Shaman is a term of sancrist that means meditating. Through Buddhism and crossed Siberia and from there in to the Anthropology scientific term.
[3] Anawak extends from Nicaragua to the tropical of Cancer; but its center of influence extends from Central America to North America.
[4] Nawatl is a language with its roots in Uto-Aztecan, spoken in North and Central America.
[5] The Stem gave name to the palisades that protected the first cities and from the society and its culture. In Anawak it obtain the meaning of esoteric knowledge.
[6] Wigberto Jimenez Moreno, “Tula and the Toltec’s according to Historic Sources”, Mexican Society of Anthropologist, 1941.