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 Fire snake one afternoon began to speak to them about the symbols that the old grandparents had bequeathed, to scrutinize the mysteries of life and the universe.

—First I would like to say that our civilization is a single one, by multiple towns and cultures that exist. The old grandparents are the generators of knowledge; we and other peoples that exist in the vast land, which is surrounded by water, come from a single root. As these five fingers, which are different between themselves, but that make up a hand. In the same way, we live surrounded by many villages, from hundreds of bundles of years ago. Our knowledge and aspirations are the same; the small differences are subtle, language, geography and climate, among other factors.

The old grandparents were "the Artists", those who learned to polish the "precious stone" that all of us have. They were known as Toltec and their wisdom as Toltecáyotl. They not only invented agriculture and with it, corn, cactus, milpa, tortillas and all our food, as well as how to prepare it. They also learned to discover the secrets of plants, animals and minerals; the universal laws of mathematics and its application to sciences such as; astronomy, engineering, architecture and social laws that govern us in peace and harmony; not to mention our religion. The old grandparents discovered incredible secrets of life, death and the universe; that can be synthesized as the management of "energy" and which the final purpose was to find equilibrium, to reach the exciting truth of our consciousness and spiritual capacity.

On this occasion I would like to talk to you about two basic symbols to understand the hidden side of the knowledge of our old Toltec grandparents. The first is what we know as the cross of the Feathered Serpent. The cross in principle is composed of four limbs, in which the four cardinal points are located. In the darkness of night and ignorance, men seek knowledge light to guide his life and the world; thus the East