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 Following the teachings of the Lord of fire darts, the warrior would go underground, to fight his battle with the gravity forces, which attract bodies, precipitating its downfall and generating their corruption.

Just like the Sun, Night Eagle would enter the world of matter and corruption; the domains of the Lord and Lady of death. He would battle the forces that corrupt the luminous and spiritual energy; and would return purified and renewed to the surface, to start his luminous ascent.

The warrior prepared himself, taking a Temazcal bath, where his body was rubbed with plants that removed all his energy impurities and revived his tissues. Then a request ceremony took place, so that all devotions of the "One for who we live" helped the warrior at his symbolic funeral. Finally one night he was taken by four priests inside the crypt, who gave him instructions.

Night Eagle should spend ten days in each of the ends of the underground cross. Every ten days a priest would enter at midnight and would sound a snail so the warrior changed his position and would leave at the entrance a water container and close the entrance again, with a large stone as door.

Forty days later a procession would come to unearth him and return him to the world of light, clean and renewed by the mother earth energy.

Night Eagle was taken to the northern corner of the cross, representing the world of reason. When the priests with torches left, the warrior stayed in the most absolute darkness. He heard as a distant echo, the noise of the great stone, which was moved to close the entrance.