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 6. THE CLASSICAL OR SPLENDOR PERIOD.

It is truly painful to Mexicans, that after five centuries, just as the 16th century conquerors, we have not cared about knowing, studying and disseminating the ancient Mexico philosophical thought. As it has been noted, the Anahuac developed one of the six oldest civilizations in the world and which achieved the highest degree of human development for all the people. This begs the question of why?, if China and India, which are as old as the Anahuac civilizations, had a philosophy that guided, explained and gave meaning and continuity to their evolution, ours, according to researchers, lacked a philosophical thought which could sustain a Cultural development process, as long and ancient as other mother civilizations of the world. The myth that our old grandparents were idolaters’ farmers, that conducted bloody ceremonies to the Sun, water and wind, is just a product of the colonizing minds, which refused and continue to deny, any value to the invaded civilization. Each of the World´s "Mother" civilizations, have had to develop, after satisfying their basic subsistence needs, a set of very elaborate and complex ideas, explaining life origin, the world and the human being; its reason for existence and to respond to what happens after death, (the ontological problem of being). This thought structure, which seeks to address three basic questions of every conscious human being and all developed people need to respond, "who am I, where I come from and where am I going", is the base where other knowledge is based, both material as well as spiritual, which give direction and meaning to existence.

Each civilization with autonomous origin, among other things, had a philosophy, a religion, a teacher, a basic grain as staple food and an aesthetic language. While some had Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism; we have the Toltecáyotl, the philosophical thought of ancient Mexico. If other civilizations had Zoroaster, Hermes, Akhenaten and based their power on wheat, rice or potatoes; we had Quetzalcoatl and maize.