faces light, above. Its color is red and our Lord of the emaciated or liberation, represents him; because it is through the light of knowledge, how man is freed from the inertia of matter. We also know it as the red smoking mirror. The west is white and is located below; it is represented by the feathered serpent or the Lord of the wind, divine breath of wisdom which breeds consciousness into the individual. To the right side is the south and its color is blue. It is the Lord of water or rain, livelihood of earth, a symbol of the luminous energy that generates life in all its forms. On the left side is the north and its color is black, represents it the Lord of death or smoking black mirror, symbol of death and resurrection. But the cross has a fifth point, the place of balance, and the central part; where life and cosmic forces met and are balanced; the essence and virtue of existence.
What is inside is outside, what is up is down. Men are a model of the universe. The old grandparents taught us —said Fire snake— that the center of men is the navel, because that is where life gets and death enters. From the navel, the old grandparents drew an imaginary line that divides men into two parts. A higher part representing the sky; from the navel to the head and the organs that symbolize him, are the heart and the brain; and earth, from the navel to the feet; the organs that symbolize it are the kidneys and sex.
For these reasons men nostalgically embodies the Feathered Serpent. Men is the point where heaven and earth touch; the divine and earthly come together, the miracle of "He who invents himself". The material part of men that crawls on earth and the spiritual part, which seeks to elevate in pursuit of its divine origin.
But men have another division, a line that divides him vertically into two halves. The right side called "Tonal" and that is associated to men, reason, day and heat; that belong to the known world, which we feel, we see and where we interact. And the left side called "nahual" and it is
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