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 '''10. - CUICACALLI, THE HOUSE OF SONG.'''

The concept of "flower and song" of the Anahuac civilization, has a profound philosophical-educational connotation. Thus, we can assert that as a consequence of this connotation an educational institution existed called "the house of song", understanding that the "song" metaphor, refers to wisdom, and flower to beauty, but applied to what is known as "artistic education".

Indeed, for many centuries throughout the Anahuac existed "cultural centers" to which students, women and men, attended in the evenings. These institutions were generally located in the center of town and the girls and maidens went in procession, at sun down from their Ichpochcalli, which was located on the side west of town.



The children and young men went from the telpochcalli, located on the east side. Both went at the same time and chanting songs and religious hymns, all accompanied by their teachers in a disciplined and solemn procession.