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 human beings, indicates a more scientific view than the origin myths of the Judeo-Christian culture. The philosophical aspects are present in the story and explain attitudes by Mexicans of yesterday and today, with regard to the divine and sacred, life and death.

''"No other ancient culture came to formulate, as they (the Maya) such number of calendar modules and categories or so many mathematical relationships for framing, with tireless yearning for accuracy, the cyclic reality of time from the most varied points of view. In naming a few of their achievements in the field of astronomy, chronology and mathematics, our purpose has been to highlight the most known of their wisdom about measuring time." (Miguel Leon Portilla. 1968)''

The time.

Another interesting aspect, to better understand the philosophical view that ancient Mexicans had on the world, is undoubtedly the conception of time and space. Indeed, time is a consequence of movement. In fact, we have given the category of "time" to the measurement of movement. But it is only an abstraction, as time does not exist, what exist is movement. Therefore, the motion of the Earth about its own axis, earth movement around the Sun and the movement of the Solar system around the Group of stars we call Pleiades and the Venus orbit around the Sun, the ancient grandparents deduced, from rigorous observation and accurate mathematical calculations, the perfect time measurement, as few peoples in the world did in ancient times. ____________________