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As this issue may seem strange, abstract "academic", not connection with life and their specific problems, or unrelated to our strength, let me start with the conclusion that I will at the end of several parts ... I do so with the hope that by advancing conclusive paragraphs pique your interest throughout the topic and the work that sustains:
The importance of reflection and research Rubén Bonifaz Nuño-notorious academic Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico -is that it immediately leads, analog wisdom, to correlate their findings with other similar areas of science, philosophy, spirituality and universal art ... It is inevitable to make us think of the Mobius strip in bing bang primordial, in the current physical notions of "folding-deployed universe" (Bohm) in holography in analog method, the thesis-antithesis- Hegelian synthesis, in religions and spiritualities Trinity in caduceus medicine in Trinity neurological theory of Mac Lean, etc ... And it is inevitable that one filled with wonder, admiration and respect for the wisdom of the whole human being reflected in these ancestors of ours (Aztec and Mesoamerican Indians in general) ...
If we have our spirit, experienced security clearly and deeply, which says Bonifaz Nuño experience when facing the Coatlicue (the main image analyzed in this work): " Nothing in it that can be eye clean , gruesome or macabre. Everything about her is condensation of powers, certainty of future harmony ... not think so, otherwise there's anyone who removes himself from the feeling of power 'tremendous' radiating from the image, so much can be said that before her is not before the image of a god, but against the configuration of a power "(All quotes, except when says another source, are from his book Image of Tlaloc ) ...
This
the teacher says Rubén Bonifaz says the following text and Francoly Moxó in Mexican letters 1805, discovered shortly after the call today Coatlicue " The statue was ... in one corner of the spacious courtyard of University, where he remained standing for some time, but in the end it was necessary to bury it again ... for a reason that nobody had foreseen. The Indians, who look so stupid indifference to all monuments of the arts Europe, came with anxious curiosity to see his famous statue. It was thought at first that did not move in it for another incentive that the national love, own no less than the wild peoples of the civilized, and the pleasure of seeing one of the most illustrious of his ancestors, which were appreciated even by the educated English. However was suspected then, that in his frequent visits had some secret motive of religion . was therefore absolutely necessary to prohibit the entry, but its fan enthusiasm and his incredible cunning mockery of all this decision . Spied the time when the court was without people, particularly afternoon, when at the conclusion of academic lessons close to all classrooms. Then, taking advantage of the silence that reigns in the abode of the Muses, left their watchtowers and were rushed to worship their Goddess Teoyaomiqui . A thousand times, turning away Vedel's and crossing the courtyard to go to their homes, surprised the Indians, some on their knees, others prostrate ... front of that statue, and having hands lighted candles or one of several offerings that their elders used to idols present. And this fact, carefully observed after serious and learned persons ..., forced to take, as we have said, resolution to put back into the soil that expressed statue ...
reflect a bit on the text, beyond the obvious contempt these authors foreign to us and ours: How was this image-recognized more than two centuries had been hidden under earth- , which immediately turned to worship? How they had preserved the venerable notion of his character? Why Indians decided to go, violating strict prohibitions and possibly exposing them to be punished, to venerate the image? Surely, because they saw the great picture something awful but a saving presence, because they would not submit to a fate without mercy, but to try to escape the settlers that they imposed. Looked there were a presence where it lost for so many years: the sense of their own dignity, their role in the structure of the world ... Something far superior revered, very close to them, yours, that foreigners did not understand then and still do not understand today the "Mexican" with the foreign heart ...
can not be avoided, then, that if you look and reflect with being deep-and not only with the eyes and less with our prejudices, these works of wisdom, Aztec and Mesoamerican spirituality, we must conclude, with the Mexicans still have a strong heart Aztec, Olmec, Toltec, and along with Bonifaz Nuño Contrary to some authors to whom he clearly disputes and many men and women born in Mexico who despise the Mexican culture " man has an essential role in the future universal. But in reality, the human collaboration is above a simple partnership in the battle against evil ... Man is not a single ally. Is the driving creative force in the world . This is what represent in this respect, the images of Tlaloc ... The central man, and beside him, divine opposites, which ceased to oppose and, with it, have been the initial triad of which all has to be born ... Nothing is created in the world without human intervention, without it, the gods are stationary or in danger of destroying each other ; no tragic necessity, but joyous and free action; no evil: there can not be in momentum that will engender the world ... And if there is evil and implacable or insignificance, there will be no possibility of pessimism ... In all images of Tlaloc, there is recognition humanist structure of the world. The will, the idea, the feeling of respect and veneration of the man himself and his own greatness, dignity, revealing himself to be consumed as a source of creative action of the divine principles ... Nothing exist if the man did not exist, we say the images of Tlaloc, only through the work of human presence, the gods acquired the power to build, linking with it the reality of the world "...
Would knowing-say-lived somewhat larger in thought and culture?
advanced Wishing that this conclusion will have an appetite for the subject, began:
Based a set of pre-Hispanic monuments and sculptures (especially Coatlicue and Tlaloc)
and correlated with a major French manuscript ( Histoyre du Mechique )
in turn translated from an original Nahuatl, the distinguished academic Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Rubén Bonifaz Nuño points:
" may well come to admit that those men were not 'primitive' worshipers of the rain, concerned only with the abundance or loss of their crops, the possible fertility of the land but had a knowledge metaphysician of the existing ... A worldview that explained their qualities make great mathematicians, astronomers, engineers, architects, sculptors, paradoxically, they are universally recognized "...
"lawfully supposed that counted a wise social organization, or hierarchy, based on sound moral principles according to which community life revolved orderly and safe ... It is known that speak languages \u200b\u200bthat are heavy with could express abstract concepts maximum; enough to contain language directly and metaphorically , the fineness and strength of the language of science, philosophy, poetic expressions ... All that and more, it would not be easy to list here, is supported by all, as something obvious and likely ... And all this can be summarized by saying that certainly admitted that the ancient inhabitants of Mesoamerica were wise men, intellectually and morally capable, aware of themselves and the world that welcomed "...
(The issue will continue shortly)
Álvaro, Deacon Mexican passionately Resistance
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