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 So religion was very similar in all towns. They changed the names, the physical representations a little and the metaphorical figure of the various devotions of “he for whom one lives”, but basically the essence was the same. An absolute divinity that is abstract, as it is not seen or touched, so it is not represented and has no name; then a second representation of this abstraction, but now tangible and visible, as the divine duality, the male and female principle of everything that exists, in a pair of complementing opposites. Immediately afterwards, the representation of the two energies that govern the universe, the luminous and the spiritual, represented by the water and wind symbol and hence, arise a series of symbols of the laws that rule the universe through all the devotions which shall interpret the basic teaching of the old Toltec grandparents. The essence of religion was the same in all the land that is surrounded by great waters. It was thus taught by the Toltecs.

For this reason, the carriers were well received everywhere and only in some few regions where people living there did not have the wisdom tradition of the ancient ancestors, where the places where the carriers were attacked. These peoples were generally nomadic hunters or were in incipient sedentary periods; which made them warlike and unrelated to the civilized world on the continent.

After four moons, the Fire Jaguar transporter team finally reached their destination, the city of Nicarao, the southern Anahuac border. It was a beautiful city at the edge of the huge Cocibolca Lake, near the great waters, that bordered closely on both sides. It was the last bastion of civilization, to the south, where the mysterious and impenetrable jungles of men never returned were. The sun came down this far on its path and rose through the year to the northern most part, where the great impenetrable desert begins.

This was the land of Nicarao, ruler of a vast region that was known as land of earthquakes and volcanoes; it included lordships all