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 between the States of Tabasco and Veracruz; but indisputably, they were present in all cultures, in a phase that we shall call "olmecoid, or with an Olmec influence. In small villages all that vast and immeasurable knowledge about the universe, nature, life, death, and man before the divine and the sacred begun to be expressed.

In the approximately 4,500 years of endogenous Cultural development, from the  onset of agriculture, until the formation of the Olmec culture, the Old Grandparents invented, discovered, produced, processed and systematized all  that wisdom which  appeared approximately 1500 years  prior to the beginning of the splendor  or flourishing of ancient Mexico, in the Classic period.

Foreign researchers have tried to erase these priceless 4,500 years from our ancient history by belittling it. Indeed, from the first agricultural practices until the emergence of the Mother Culture, they are barely given importance in research texts and are almost non-existent in the "official story" that is recorded from the first appearance of the Olmec culture. But the Olmecs were not created by "spontaneous generation". There were four thousand five hundred years of intense research and systematization of human life experience.

The corn invention.

The corn invention, is perhaps, one of the greatest achievements of the preclassical or formative period, since from a wild grass, our Old Grandparents produced the splendid maize plant, which became the staple food of their civilization. It is important to stress that no other ____________________