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 lived for thousands of years with a spiritual sense and in harmony with the universe.

''"There was no doubt for him that the Mayans had been accomplished mathematicians, astronomers and navigators, and who were familiar with flat and spherical trigonometry, that placed them in a position to calculate the world size, calculate the distance from pole to pole, and estimate a Meridian length. He believed that, as the Egyptians, the Mayans had added their cosmogony and religious conceptions to their sacred buildings, particularly the pyramids". (Peter Tompkins. 1981)''

The three knowledge circles.

There are three knowledge circles in ancient civilizations of the world. Three levels where wisdom is expressed and transmitted. In the first circle is the "word".

''"The word masters, the tlatolmatinime, as they were called in their language, were priests, poets and sages, speech authors, dedicated to dominating the difficult art of expressing thought with the appropriate tone and the metaphor that opens the way to comprehension. They were, as an ancient text reads, lip and mouth artists, owners of the noble language and careful expression. Many of them were also teachers in prehispanic education centers, where, along with the best of prehispanic cultural traditions, also taught tecpillatolli, or noble and careful language. These same word masters created what was then called icniúhyotl, fraternities of poets and sages..." (Miguel León Portilla. 2001)''

In fact, from the very origins of human wisdom, it is has been guarded—transmitted in the language of the peoples. As example ____________________