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 greatest privilege that a common man could aspire. In this exchange of cult materials, were not considered any personal or profit interest, since from the basic education of society, they had no speculation, appropriation or wealth accumulation. On the contrary, society as a whole was directed to more mystical and spiritual existence aspects. They developed from an early age and very precisely the concept that individuals should serve the community. That valued more the "we", than the individual self.

Therefore, to be an important part of the religious cult enablers represented for the brotherhood members, a privilege that was paid with a high sacrifice and often with life itself. The brotherhood members were also expert fighters and excellent hunters.

Military discipline was not only for organization. From very small the members were trained in the use of weapons. The ancestors, from the very origin of the time, had invented rudimentary weapons, such as spear, shield, bow and arrows and a few macuahuitl or macana with very sharp obsidian stone at the ends, because wars were not very common among the old Toltec grandparents children and they never used their intelligence for weapon development except for the dart launcher, than the old grandparents invented to hunt flying birds and that was very effective, it could throw a dart at a much greater speed than an arrow from a bow.

The concept of the war and the warrior was focused on a spiritual struggle, called florid battle and the warrior fought it in an internal struggle exclusively. However, this spiritual characteristic did not make the battles less difficult or fierce. This is how the spiritual warriors, by tradition concocted a more allegorical than practical military suits. Furs and feathers were more a mystical order, which for example had to do with symbolic animals, such as the jaguar and the