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 ''—Warriors fight personal importance as a matter of strategy, not as a matter of faith —he said—. Your mistake is to understand what I say in terms of morality...''

''—Impeccability is nothing but the proper use of energy —said—. Everything I say does not have one iota of morality. I have saved energy and that makes me impeccable...''

''—Warriors make strategic inventories —he said—. Make lists of their activities and interests. Then decide which of them can be changed, and thus give a break to their energy consumption...''

—The rechanneling of that energy is impeccability...

''...the warrior attributes are: control, discipline, restraint, the ability to choose the right time and the intent. These five elements belong to the warrior private world, that fights to lose their personal importance. The sixth element, which is perhaps the most important of all, belongs to the outside world and is called the fucking tyrant...''

''—A fucking tyrant is torturer —he said—. Someone who has the power to put an end to warriors, or someone who simply makes their life impossible...''

''He added that the fucking little tyrants category had been divided into four more. One was composed by those who torment with brutality and violence. Another, by those who do it creating unbearable apprehension. Another, by those that oppress with sadness. And last, by those who torment making people angry...''

''In fact, what turns human beings into fucking tyrants is precisely the obsessive handling of what is known... ''

—How do you measure defeat?

''—Anyone who joins the fucking tyrant is defeated. Getting angry and acting without control or discipline, not having restraint is being defeated.''

—What happens when warriors are defeated?

—Either regroup and return to the fight with more wisdom, or leave the warrior path and join for life the ranks of the fucking tyrants..." C.C. 

THE EAGLE EMANATIONS

The Sun relation (as creative force) with birds, is common in some independent origin cultures, not only in Anahuac; the Eagle, Condor, Falcon, are Sun’s representation. The Aztecs took over as the Sun people, barbaric people who was the last immigration from the north that arrived in the wild to the Anahuac Valley to found Tenochtitlan towards 1325 CE. The cultural world of the Anahuac inhabitants was in decadence from the Toltec cultural relics, which disappeared around 850 CE; the Aztecs and, most importantly Tlacaelel, "re-functionalized" the Toltec thought, which was essentially spiritual, to create a mystic-warrior ideology that weighed matter over the spirit (Thought and Religion in Ancient Mexico, page-25)- "The Aztecs were among the hunter tribes. Reached the highlands after arduous pilgrimage in which some episodes, while clarifying their archaic status, also strongly point to their already specifically warrior character of the future Tenochtitlan founders... the Aztecs knew nothing but archaic witchcraft laws until they came in contact with highlands religious creations, beliefs they immediately adopted to their rudimentary mentality... ''Late arrivals to the Mexico Valley (the Aztecs), immediately begin fighting for land and political supremacy within the tribes, that by having adopted more civilized practices are surprised by the newly arrived brutality..." Séjourné    '' ____________________