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 13. THE POSTCLASSICAL PERIOD.

The end or collapse of the late Classical period is to date, one of the greatest mankind mysteries. In fact, all the Anahuac glory for more than a thousand years and which was preceded by almost six thousand years of formative period, called the Preclassical period; was mysteriously truncated. At the same time, in all Cem Anahuac, men and women of knowledge destroyed themselves, the ancient centers of research and education, now known as archaeological sites, covered them with dirt and literally disappeared without leaving any archaeological trace. Given that they did not leave any archaeological trace or subsequently appeared elsewhere.

Upon the mysterious departure of "the venerable Toltec Masters", the Cem Anahuac peoples and cultures started, little by little, changing and modifying the laws, regulations, rules and traditions to govern, direct and manage the peoples that were taught and supervised by the Toltec for more than ten centuries. The solid social structures began breaking and the "the inertia of matter" began gaining strength and momentum, i.e., ambition, ego, greed, envy, abuse and violence.

Leaders ceased to be "real men" they no longer were "smokeless torches" and began transmitting power through family lines until turning into lineages. Administrators were not the most honest, but the smarter; the priests created their own lineages and began corrupting the religion taught by Quetzalcoatl.

Nothing new happened in Cem Anahuac, which has not been seen in the history of mankind. Over time, spirit poverty and dazzling over material goals was more important and conveniently imposed to maintain power over time. The Toltecáyotl began to slowly suffer negative changes that eventually made it lose the original sense that sought to guide human beings in society through a path of virtue and impeccability.