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 invasion as long as natives are "freed" from their demonic religion and saved their souls, taking them into the bosom of the Catholic Church.

The religious abstraction.

An example of this advanced religious vision can be seen by a celebration of a ceremony that from the Olmec’s to Aztecs was repeated exactly every 52 years.

An astonishing measure that prevented fanaticism and cult to objects, maintaining people without the aberrant traits of deceit and idolatry. We refer to the New Fire ceremony that was celebrated every "Bundle of years" and that among all rituals required that the inhabitants of all communities, large and small, climbed a tutelary hill carrying all their "religious relics" that were accumulated over 52 years, both in the temples and homes.

These figures made from clay and various materials belonged to the different ways in which the supreme divinity was represented and its various avocations or "small gods". The pieces were destroyed the last day before the end of the cosmic cycle, because if the Sun rose the next day, they were guaranteed another 52 years of life from the Fifth Sun. So not only initiated a new fire, but also new deities representations were built to start a new cycle without old "relics" that would make people fanatical, that could prevent the abstract sense of divinity. It is remarkable to understand how with a religious tradition of an extremely mystical and spiritual civilization, prevented their peoples from becoming fanatical and convert objects into religious fetishes, while maintaining the Supreme divinity at the abstract plane. Our ancestors only became idolatrous precisely with the imposition of Catholicism, as it is there where images devotion originates.

This is how it can be asserted, that the supreme divinity, which had no name, nor could be represented, view or touched, manifested itself in the universe, nature and the great