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 tlacahuapahualiztli concept, which means "the art of raising and educating men", speaks of this deep cultural Anahuac heritage.

This sense started from the human being conception, education beginning and end. The human being was divine creation, perfectible and in constant evolution. The Teotihuacán gods sacrificed for them and their world. The Fifth Sun era was lived, which had been preceded by four previous Suns, in successive creation-destruction, always had the human being, their food and their society, in a process of constant evolution.



Another human being feature, was that they possessed a great responsibility for development and equilibrium of the world they lived in. The common human being was called "macehual", which means, "the deserving" of the sacrifice of the gods. Somehow, this "deserving" was a "little helper" of divine forces which had created the world. Life had a sacred meaning, insofar as they could fully comply with this mission-responsibility. This "help" was provided by a being virtuous and compassionate human, fearful and grateful of the divine in everyday life. Fulfilling scrupulously their duties with family,