Much has been written of the "Toltec" and indeed little is known them. It has been said, wrongly, that was a "people or culture" and is usually confused with the stories of decadent Anahuac Postclassic (850-1521 AD)
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Toltecs were a lineage of knowledge of the ancient wisdom of Cem Anahuac. That is, Toltec is a "degree of knowledge" of the toltecayotl. All ancient civilizations with autonomous origin had a "knowledge structure" that allowed them to develop the "cultural scaffolding" with which to transform the world and provide meaning in both material and immaterial. The systematic toltecayotl is the sum of knowledge of the Anahuac civilization to achieve "balance" both the exterior material, such as the interior immaterial plane.
toltecayotl will then be the "art of live in balance "and therefore" Toltec "is," symbolically, "the artist" among artists. He who brings out the faces of self and true hearts, which glows like a torch that smokes, "the master" among teachers.
So Cem Anahuac existed in a handful of Toltecs from all peoples and cultures. These men and women of knowledge studied and practiced the skills of toltecayotl in the Classic period, in what is now known as "archaeological sites" and never were palaces, fortresses, cities or ceremonial centers. " Rather, research and study of human potential in energy parameters around which Western science now begins to perceive. The center of the irradiator was Teotihuacán toltecayotl place where "human beings attain divinity."
The toltecayotl and the Toltecs, probably arose from the Preclassic period. Evolved from being nomadic hunters, gatherers and sedentary farmers through to be able to develop and build a complex system of knowledge and values that allowed them to solve their existential problems of a material efficiently, moving to raise the solution of the existential problems of heritage order or importance, the so-called Olmec culture.
Indeed, the so-called Olmec or know "the extent of the movement", were the first "teachers" who began to organize what we know as toltecayotl. It is interesting to note that throughout history Anahuac, since about six thousand or eight thousand before the Christian era, there was a unifying line of thought that structured and permeated the three periods (Preclassic, Classic and Post Classic) with the same cultural philosophical roots, which can be seen in the architecture, iconography, rituals, values, customs and traditions of all peoples Anahuac, although fully diversified across its peoples and cultures in space and time Anahuac. Corn and Quetzalcoatl are the ultimate symbols of reality "material and spiritual" Anahuac.
why Quetzalcoatl was neither a character and less "a god" as he said Some Postclassic Anahuac peoples and the conquerors respectively. Quetzalcoatl is a symbol rather philosophical and human archetype as have other ancient civilizations of mankind.
The Plumed Serpent Olmec
Because we can see in the Olmec culture in 1200 BC in Chalcatzingo, Morelos to the "Plumed Serpent" sculpture in the large rocks of the archaeological zone. But we appreciate at Teotihuacan in 200 AD in the Classic period, and even in the Great Tenochtitlan Postclassic in the Mexica in 1500 AD So might not be a human being. Nor was a "god" because we know that religion did not exist Anahuac gods. Only a supreme deity was perceived that he had no form, name and could not be represented. However, there were many demonstrations and invocations of his immense power and presence. These multiple invocations of the unknown, nameless, invisible and impalpable, the settlers of yesterday and today, through ignorance or malice have called them "gods" to justify its elimination and the imposition of his gospel, and the researchers, their wrong and jobs unfortunate that reduce toltecayotl a handful of idolatry and "primitive beliefs."
, The Feathered Serpent Toltec
But the reality is different. "The Quetzalcoatl" We're talking about a philosophical figure or a human aspiration to find "balance" through the correct use of "far." For humans toltecayotl metaphorically divided into four parts from "the center" or called "co" in the Nahuatl language, meaning "navel." The navel to the head symbolizes the sky and the Spirit, is represented by the most beautiful Quetzal bird that climbs the heights desired by humans. The navel to the feet symbolizes the earth and matter, is symbolized by a snake Nahuatl language that says "coatl." So "Quetzalcoatl" means philosophically the union and the balance between spirit and matter. The other two parts coming from the longitudinal division of the human being in the right or left side tonal and nagual, representing the world and the individual respectively: The Sun, the male and reason, and the moon, the feminine and intuition.
The Aztec Feathered Serpent
Quetzalcoatl, the Toltec toltecayotl and are the most vaunted, - "the fruit flourished" - the civilization of Anahuac and to date, little is known about this amazing new knowledge that gave wisdom , direction and continuity to over three thousand five hundred years of Human Development Cem Anahuac.
Thus we can say that teachers "Toltec Olmec had their continuity with the teachers' Mayan Toltec, Zapotec and Nahuatl, to name only three different cultures of Anahuac. However, from the "collapse of the Classic period" around the year 850, "Toltec" tlaltipac or disappeared from earth, destroying its many centers of knowledge and concealing their ancient knowledge. Leaving the prophecy would return to restore harmony and balance in Anahuac in year one cane, which is repeated every 52 years.
myth or metaphor that Quetzalcoatl was deceived and defeated by his counterpart Tezcatlipoca, who managed to overcome "the defenses "that protected him in his palace and gave him a mirror as a gift, which saw him Quetzalcoatl," found an old man "and which are transgressed and sinned, losing its purity. Why he left the Anahuac. The metaphor suggests that knowledge "aged" and had to "withdraw" temporarily "restored" with the promise that he would return to restore harmony and balance.
time later, the memory of Quetzalcoatl and his teachings started to become and corrupted with successive generations. Some people have transformed the ancient myths and adjusted to "history", which appears as a god Quetzalcoatl or character. This new period is known as the Postclassic and "memory" of Quetzalcoatl will be transformed in the interests of powerful groups. In fact, during the Classic period there was a period of peace and the people lived in harmony and balance for more than ten centuries led by the venerable master Toltec wisdom of toltecayotl. Culture flourished in its diversity but maintained its philosophical roots and above all, a remarkable cultural unity.
This "unity in diversity cultural," not only expressed in multiple languages, religious events, architecture, iconography, art, food, clothing, etc. But primarily on the philosophical aspect. A region as large as the Cem Anahuac and with so many different people, kept the cultural unity based on cultural philosophical matrix that represented the toltecayotl. Toltecs, no matter who spoke Nahuatl, Maya or Zapotec, spoke of the same philosophical and maintained the same values \u200b\u200band principles. Allowing that all people were different but twin high aspirations for the same existential.
Eight Deer conquistador Mixtec
From the tenth century in Anahuac began the search for "re-build" this amazing cultural unity that lasted a millennium, but no longer wisdom, but with arms and alliances between peoples and family lineage. In the absence of the Toltecs some peoples and leaders tried to unify the cultural whole. The Maya, Mixtec, Purépecha and finally the Aztecs tried, but partial and limited achievements in space and time until the arrival of European invaders.
However, it is important to note that the Toltecs just "disappeared" from tlatipac, but never became extinct or just the toltecayotl. The Toltecs continued with the development of toltecayotl, but now out of immediate everyday world. The Toltecs have continued their generations of knowledge over time. His ability and impeccable has made them "invisible" amid the hubbub of the colony and the independent Mexico, reaching today impeccable and immaculate. Moreover, the toltecayotl has continued to live in the subconscious of people and cultures of today as Mexico.
settlers from Clavijero historians to contemporary national and foreign, have made the "Toltec" a people and culture. Which is a mistake and a sign of ignorance and contempt with which they "researched and studied" the ancient past of our civilization. Currently in the ethnic mosaic of the nation, do not see the "Toltec" within 62 peoples. Yes they were a people, and this was so important, how come there today, when we find people like the Tacuates that, despite its relative importance in the "nation's indigenous past, remain and have been known to survive their historical death. The Toltecs have never been a people or a culture, but a degree of knowledge of the toltecayotl.
The truth is that the Toltecs hid their knowledge. We do not know why, but the destruction of what we know today as the Classic period archaeological sites, not only represented a tremendous effort, but is the symbol irrefutable knowledge that his "concealed", but has continued in full and permanent development. The fact that the dominant culture can not understand and manipulate this knowledge does not necessarily mean that there is. It has only been kept out of "reality or world known" to the dominant culture.
The toltecayotl and the Toltecs are the best resource we have to build a country of justice, equality and humanism. Represents the most important cultural heritage that we inherited from the more than seven thousand five hundred years past up the Cem Anahuac. The prophecy of his return is still alive in the subconscious and the heart of the peoples that make up the "Mexico" today.
Recommended literature on the subject:
"toltecayotl: Aspects of the Nahuatl culture."
Miguel Leon-Portilla FCE. Sci. 1983.
"True History of Mexico Deep."
Guillermo Marín. www.toltecayotl.org
Section Books.
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