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 eleventh month festivities, called “Sweeping the roads”, was also meant to teach young people the art of stalking.

Smoky mirror spoke to the young men:

—“In the world all living beings are equal, we have three things that make us common; the first is that we are alive; the second is that we feel and the third is that we're all going to die... whether we are plants, animals or humans; so we must bear in mind that when we seek our livelihood, other living beings, shall be slaughtered so that we can live. We must therefore also think that one day all we will also be food of another being.

I would also like to tell you that life is like a hunt, the difference is the prey. Men are always in pursuit of knowledge. The old grandparents said that we can be hunters of knowledge. In fact it is what you are doing in our respectable institution. Those of you, who can "hunt" sufficient knowledge, will one day reach the world of power. It will be in another place and another time, if this is to happen. For now, it is important that you become immaculate hunters.

Therefore the most important thing is to be aware of what you pretend, because to be an immaculate hunter is not enough to be an accurate archer. What is required is that you learn to observe without being observed, that you learn to wait without despair, that you do not behave as prey; that you know what you want to hunt, why you want to hunt and how it should be hunted; it doesn't matter if it's ideas, knowledge, objects, plants or animals.

The hunter must be a balanced, moderate and restrained man; because for the hunter to hunt, always enters an unusual and unknown world... therefore dangerous.