UNDERSTANDING ANAHUAC THEOLOGY by Olin Tezcatlipoca Copyright 2005 Olin Tezcatlipoca ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
We all have referred to our parents as “mother”, “father”,
or by their specific first name
or sometimes referred to them
by their first name and surname
when speaking to others about them.
We might more scientifically
refer to them biologically
as egg provider, semen provider.
In generations prior to today,
we might have referred to them as
my mother who takes care of the house
and as my father who has a job to pay for food and clothing.
In a thankfull and acknowledgeing way
we might refer to our mother as:
the one who gave birth to me;
the one who gave milk to me from her breast;
the one who held me;
the one who changed my diapers;
the one who guarded over me.
In a thankfull and acknowledging way
we might also refer to our father as:
the one who provides for home and health;
the one who protects my life;
the one who guides me;
the one who helps me with my homework;
and the one who disciplines me.
In other ways, in prior generations,
we acknowledged our parents by:
showing respect to their rules;
doing as we have been taught to do in morality and ethics;
being obedient to their comands;
and being thankfull for their gifts, their love,
and the life that they provided for us.
These are just some of the ways in which we relate with our parents.
We use differerent names to identify them.
We describe them in how they help us.
We know that without them we would never had been born.
Our ancestors acknowledged Our Creator in a similiar fashion
by referring to Our Creator as
Our Mother, Our Father, Tonantzin, Totatzin.
We also referred to Our Creator by many other names,
to suit the purpose for which we were addressing Our Creator.
We used the following names,
to give full recognition to the major manifestations of Our Creator that we acknowledged as:
Creator of the Universe, Moyocoyatzin
The One Who Gives Us Life, Ipalnemohuani
The Sacred Duality, referring to all things Material and Non-Material, Ometeotl
The One who is Everything in All Directions, In All Space, in All Times Tloque Nahuaque.
We also looked at the two manifestations of Ometeotl and called them as:
The One Who is in All of the Elements of the Universe: Coatlicue
referring to Our Creator in the material manifestation of the universe, as Our Mother.
The One Who Causes Movement of Mater in the Universe: Yohualli Ehecatl
referring to Our Creator as the Mover of Mater in the universe, as Our Father.
Our ancestors scientifically pointed out the main manifestations of Our Creator as
Mater and Mater-in-Movement as
Water (Atl) represented by Tlaloc, the blood of the universe,
who is represented by the moon (meztli) and the eastern direction
and by the animal symbol of the owl (tecolotl);
Earth (Tlalli) represented by Tezcatlipoca, the flesh of the universe,
who is in turn represented by the earth (tlalli) and the northern direction
and by the animal symbol of the jaguar (ocelotl);
Air-Wind (Ehecatl) represented by Quetzalcoatl, the breath of the universe,
who is in turn represented by the planet venus (tlahuizcalpantecuhtli) and the western direction
and by the animal symbol of the quetzal feathered serpent (quetzalcoatl);
and Fire (Tlachinolli) represented by Huitzilopochtli, the heart of the universe,
who is in turn represented by the sun (tonatiuh) and the southern direction
and by the animal symbol of the eagle (cuahuatli).
We understood Our Creator to be everything.
Our Creator was understood to be in everything:
Our Father the Sky, as essence of the Sun, that which lights and warms us;
Our Mother the Earth, as the essence of the Soil, who provides for us and nourishes us.
In all of these understandings we understood Our Creator very scientifically,
based exclusively on observation, based on proven physics, chemistry, and astronomy.
We wrote of these undersandings in metaphor, myth, poetry,
and mystic intellectual concepts,
and in art and architecture.
We have a very beautiful theology, a very complicated theology.
We should show it respect by studying it.
We should not speak lightly of this great heritage of our people.
FACTS Y O U S H O U L D K N O W !
MEXICAMexica (Meh-shee-kah) is the original Nahuatl (the so-called Aztec language) way of pronouncing Mexican, Mexicano, and Chicano and Chicana. The Mexica was the last of our great Anahuac civilizations (1325 to 1521). Mexica is the only one of our cultures and civilizations which has enough surviving material from which we can reconstruct our Anahuac nation. The Mexica were victims of an ethnocide that left no one today who can authentically call themselves Mexica, much like in Italy there is no one who can authentically call themselves Roman. Therefore, the rest of us who have lost all of our civilization identity and culture or tribal identity and culture, and even those of us who have a civilization or tribal identity, can and should embrace Mexica identity as a collective identity for all of us that we use in order to reconstruct our Anahuac nation and as a means of Liberation. Mexica does not negate Maya or Huichol or Comanche or Shoshone or any of our other Nican Tlaca (Indigenous) civilizations or cultures. Mexica is our point of unity and our means of reconstructing all of our nation.
ANAHUACAnahuac (Ah-nah-wak) is the true name of our nation. We are all part of the Anahuac civilization that gave us the Olmeca, Zapoteca, Teotihuacan-Toltec, Maya and Mexica civilizations. The Mexica part of our Anahuac heritage is how we can reconstruct ourselves as a Nican Tlaca (Indigenous) nation, as the Anahuac Nation. We have historic, cultural, linguistic, and racial factors that make us one Anahuac nation, which includes all of our civilizations and cultures. The Mexica heritage gives us a history, language, theology, and study base from which we can rebuild all of our Anahuac heritage. We are a beautiful mosaic of civilizations and cultures throughout this whole continent that Europeans call "America". But this is not "America", this is Anahuac.
NICAN TLACANican Tlaca is our Nahuatl (Mexica) language way of saying "We the people here", in reference to all of us who are Indigenous to Cemanahuac (what Europeans call "the Western Hemisphere") and more specific to Anahuac which is the northern part of Cemanahuac (which is falsely called "North America"). Nican Tlaca refers to all of the people of our race in the "Western Hemisphere". We are not Indians or indios because those are the people of a nation called India. We are also not "Native American" because we are not related to Amerigo Vespucci, nor do we accept the concept of "Native" because it is always used in a derogatory manner. Notice how there are no "Native" Europeans.
NOT MESTIZO Mestizo is a racist term imposed on us by the Europeans. Mestizo (Mixed-blood)as an identity denies us our full humanity, it enslaves us to the European world. Full-blood or Mixed-blood we are still Nican Tlaca. Being Mixed-blood (so-called Mestizo) does not stop us from being Nican Tlaca, no matter how "white" one looks. The shades and physical looks of our Mixed-blood people are just scars from the rape of our nation. The scars do not define us! Our history, our heritage, and our continent ARE what defines us.
"CENTRAL AMERICA" "Central America" was artificially created in 1823. Before that date we were all part of Anahuac. Anahuac includes Mexico, "Central America", Canada and the so-called U.S. We are not "Central Americans", therefore we use that term it quotes to reject it; while at the same time we know that most of our people are ignorant to its racist and colonial terms and that is the only way that they will know what we are talking about. Much like us using the English or Spanish language, we use them in order to communicate with our people but we know that they are not our languages. If we wrote the whole website just in Nahuatl or Maya the majority of our people would not understand a word of our website.
NOT HISPANICHispanics are the Spaniards, the people of Spain. We are not Spaniards! We are Mexica! We are the people of Anahuac. We are the Nican Tlaca (Indigenous people) of this continent, the true owners of this continent. We are not Spaniards or the property of Spain. Calling ourselves "Hispanic" denies us our true Nican Tlaca Anahuac identity, history and heritage. It enslaves us to the interests of the "Spanish" white world. Calling our people Hispanic is racist. Calling our people Hispanic is like calling the African descent people in the U.S. Britannic because they have British names and because they speak English.
NOT LATINOLatinos are the Latins: Southern Europeans--the Spaniards, French, and Portuguese. Calling ourselves "Latino" makes us cultural slaves of Europeans. Like Hispanic, Latino is cultural suicide. It is cultural genocide. It betrays our true Nican Tlaca ancestors.
NOT RAZA "Raza" is not an identity. "Raza" is basically the same thing as using the Eurocentric term "Mestizo"--it takes pride in Spanish blood (what little or nothing that we may have) and puts shame in our Nican Tlaca blood and culture. Calling ourselves "Raza" is a way of saying, "I'm not an 'Indio', I have some, mostly, Spanish blood". In Mexico "Dia de la Raza" is celebrated on October 12---Columbus Day. Imagine that! We are celebrating the rape of our mothers, the rape of our nation, the enslavement of our people.
EUROPEAN, WHITE AND CRIOLLOare basically the same thing. These are "White" people who are on our continent. Europeans can call themselves "Canadian" or "American" but their homeland is still Europe and they are still trespassing on our continent. A Criollo is someone of "authentic Spanish-European" descent who is still on our land exploiting our people, our resources and our wealth. GENOCIDE as defined by Raphael Lemkin, "...is the planned annihilation [killing] of a national [Mexican] or racial group by a variety of actions [biological warfare, oppression, enslavement] aimed at undermining the foundations essential to the survival of the group [Nican Tlaca of Anahuac] as a group.
MEXICA MOVEMENTis leading the way with actions that defend our people, actions that provide a vision for the liberation of our people, actions that confront the racism against us and the occupation of our continent by Europeans. We declare ourselves independent from the Hispanic-Latino European colonialism and racism that has enslaved us for over 500 years.
THINGS YOU SHOULD DO!
1) Study this document and go to our website for more information: www.mexica-movement.org
2) Read the recommended books listed below under BIBLIOGRAPHY.
3) If you can't get your books from your local library buy them from the powells.com
4) Share your knowledge! Make good quality copies of this material and pass it on.
5) Study the materials and the website. If you live in the Los Angeles area call us at (323) 981-0352 so you can visit us, join us in activities, or to become a supporter. You can also donate money to support our movement (we are a non-profit organization).
6) Once you understand our philosophy, and you have found the courage to change your life, become a part of the Mexica Movement.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
None of these books are perfect, but they are the best of the best that are out there. Read these with caution. These books are from 90 to 100% right on the history and issues of our people.
(Read in this order, please)
1Daily Life of the Aztecs by Jacques Soustelle
2Mexico by Michael Coe
3Mexico Profundo by Guillermo Bonfil Batalla
4American Holocaust by David E. Stannard
5Anahuac Book by Olin Tezcatlipoca located on this website click here
6Year 501 by Noam Chomsky
7Colonizer's Model of the World by J.M. Blaut
8Mexica Handbook by Olin Tezcatlipoca
9Mexico's Indigenous Past by Lopez Austin and Lopez Lujan
10American Indian Contributions to the World by
Emory Dean Keoke & Kay Marie Porterfield
CHRONOLOGY AND OTHER REFERENCES:
11Latin America: From Colonization To Globalization by Noam Chomsky
12Encyclopedia of World History 6th Edition by Peter Stam
13Oxford Atlas of History 2002 by Oxford Press
14Course of Mexican History by Michael C. Meyer and William L. Sherman
15Oxford History of Mexico 2000 by Michael Meyer and William Beezley
16In the Language of Kings by Miguel Leon-Portilla
17Skywatchers by Anthony F. Aveni
18Flayed God (out of print, get used) by Roberta and Peter Markman
