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 ''past: it’s the indians, it is the indian. And that is how a rupture is marked and is accentuated with a revealing and disturbing superiority load. That resignation and denial of the past, does it actually represent a total historic break and irreparable? Did the indian civilization died and what possible remains of it are fossils already doomed five centuries ago to disappear because they have no possible present or future? It is imperative to rethink the answer to these questions, because many other questions and urgent responses depend on them, for the Mexico of today and what we may wish to build". (Guillermo Bonfil Batalla. 1987) ''

The recovery of ancient history "own—ours" is a priority to dismantle the colonial system and thereby build a more just society. We need to recover our historical memory, we need to take away the "the ancient history of Mexico" from foreign scholars and their local colonized assistants and incorporate it into everyday life. Take it from museums, libraries and research centers. Incorporate it into the values and principles of the new society. Recreate new myths that support "our-own" future, with the foundations of the ancient civilization. Add it to the paradigms and the magical stories that give us memory and roots. Make the "ancient Mexican" our beloved and admired old grandparents, and put an end to the evil perception that there are no existing links or continuity between the ancient past and present. Understand and feel that the Anahuac civilization is alive and vibrates in every one of our dozing hearts.