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 announces rain arrival, and therefore life flourishment. The divine breath that encouraged spiritual consciousness was associated with Quetzalcoatl.

"They spoke of a national hero, civilizer and teacher, which at the same time was identified with the supreme deity and the world creator."

''"Leon Portilla considers that more important than Quetzalcoatl existence as a man —whose life, mainly in the Mayan world, constitutes a complex whose clarification has quite a few problems— is that he has been regarded as central spiritual personage in Mexico before the conquest, to the extent that the philosophical thought, attributed to him, dominates an entire cultural stage." (Alfredo López Austin. 1989) ''

These symbolic representations of philosophical realities highly complex and profound were shared by all cultures in time and space. From the preclassical to the postclassical periods, from north to south and from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. Its iconography maintained common features and characters and basically their names varied according to the language, but meant the same. For example: Quetzalcoatl in Nahuatl and Kukulcán in Maya mean in both cases "Bird—Serpent" or precious snake, as Nuhu Coo Tnumiii in Mixtec language or Belaguetza in Zapotec and Q'uq'umatz for the Maya K'iche'. Various forms of expressing the same religious philosophical matrix, which speaks of a conducting thread from the Olmecs in the preclassical, to the Toltec in classical period and to the Mexicas or Aztec (and others) in the postclassical period. A single philosophical-cultural matrix, a varied iconography but maintaining and sharing universal aesthetic values between them, and finally, a single religion with many expression variations in time and space.

In the book, “Thought and religion in ancient Mexico", Laurette Séjourné makes un-colonial approximation of what must have been the essence of the Anahuac religion.

"It is this same itinerary what the soul follows: descends from its celestial abode, enters the darkness of matter to raise again,