It is important to mention, that those interested in Mexico’s ancient history have been mostly foreigners. Therefore, they have "studied and researched" Mexico’s past, as noted earlier by Bonifaz Nuño, almost always with ignorant contempt and an attitude of superiority. One day, investigator Paul Kirchhoff[1] thought about dividing the Anahuac into: Mesoamerica, (taken from the concept of Mesopotamia which means "between two rivers” in the Sumerian culture) and Arid America. In other words, the "cultured—dead—disappeared— Indians—of the past" who built pyramids and beautiful objects to worship their gods and who lived from the present States of Sinaloa, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas to the south, and the "savage—dead—disappeared—Indians—from— the past", that lived in the northern region of Mexico. However, the Anahuac cultural philosophical matrix was shared by all peoples, from Alaska to Nicaragua, creating a continental civilization that, starting with Columbus’ mistake (of confusing this continent with India), Europeans have not wanted to know or understand, or have been unable to do so. Perhaps that is why, after five hundred years of knowing that Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) was wrong, and did not reach India; they continue to call “Indian” the people originating in the Anahuac, the proper name for persons born in India.
The Anahuac civilization permeated everything that makes up our national territory today. We assume that this civilization has a CONTINENTAL nature. In fact, there are very similar "cultural" elements, between Kumeyaay natives from Baja California and Mayan natives from Quintana Roo. At the same time, we can find these basic similarities between a native from Canada and one from Patagonia, passing through the Great Plains of North America, Mexico, Central America, the Andean zone to the Amazon. The core values of life, death, nature, the cosmos, the divine and the sacred are harmoniously and intimately shared by all the so-called "indigenous" peoples of the American continent. What bonds and identifies peoples with indigenous roots is the philosophical-cultural matrix that gives us structure us and not the alleged "Latinity" (“Latin ethnicity”) which was invented by Napoleon III to seize the
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- ↑ “Mesoamerica, its geographical limits, ethnicity and cultural traits”. 1943. Mesoamerica: Our Region". Mesoamerica. http://www.mesoamerica.com/ing_nuestra_region.shtml. "Paul Kirchhoff coined the term Mesoamerica in 1943 from the Greek mesos or "center" and America from Americo Vespucci, who claimed to have discovered the continent (Christopher Columbus thought he had reached Asia)."
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