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 only for a short time, just like the corn flower we came to open we have come to know us on Earth.

Because we shall not live here, we shall not remain here, we are searching for a land. There we will meet he who is Night and Wind the Owner of the near and the next (omnipresent)."

Ever since that lesson, Night Eagle guided by priests began to know the hidden face of their ancestral religion. The divinities became esoteric and philosophical knowledge of the mystery of life and the world; "Forces and truths" under which their ancestors had lived for generations and guided them, a way to flourish the heart and reach the land of the omnipresent Lord.

Night Eagle began to develop a very special friendship with the Venerable High Priest of the institution. “Relámpago de la noche” (Nigh Lightning) was very interested in that Night Eagle became a priest; so he did not miss an opportunity to talk to him, for whole hours explaining him the mysterious representations of "One who invented himself". It was Nigh Lightning who taught him the secrets of the deities. That always in complementary and opposite pairs, represented the world and its mysteries.

An afternoon when they were alone, Night lightning and Night Eagle, the high priest began saying to his pupil:

—There was only one creative force. Beginning and end; invisible as the night and impalpable as the wind; an energy that invents