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 various devotions of the divine duality, that has no name, form, or is seen or touched. Although in principle the community was the same as all, because the land was farmed and certain products were manufactured to live adequately. The pochtecas had as main activity, travel and transport the sacred utensils. This task was carried out with the greatest pride and the tradition came from family in family over many bundles of years.

Night Light told Night Eagle, that he should prepare to leave with a group of travelers who would take a large amount amate paper, brought from the highlands, to remote southern regions of the land surrounded by great waters or Anahuac. From those distant lands they brought back gold, to make sacred utensils.

From immemorial times, the old Toltec grandparents had taught to use gold as representation of the purity that matter can achieve and that from this same purity, avoided corruption. For this reason, the gold was a symbolic material of the Supreme aspiration of mortals to reach purity, to prevent the death or matter corruption.

The loads of amate paper were duly prepared, provisions and one day in the morning, Night Eagle came out with twenty walkers heading to the distant lands of the south.

The Pochteca brotherhood of carriers had a military structure, which had ranks and discipline was very strict. Walkers should among other things, master several languages and know the cultural diversity of peoples, have an impressive physical built and condition, and should have experts knowledge of the vast territories and the roads of the land between great waters, as well as its nature, climate, plants, animals and insects.

The journeys made by these intrepid men, were full of dangers, many of these resulted in death. For them, belonging to this fraternity, represented the