Science as an intergenerational endeavour
It has been a long time since anyone really knew what year it is, all we know is that civilization collapsed, then someone found this ancient scripture conserved in one of those big buildings in the city. Our most important academics has been working on it for years without too much success.
Do you think that from this blackboard and some other spread pages from physics books they could really understand the true meaning of the symbols presented?
Well that is somehow the problem when our academics try to understand pre hispanic registers (Codex). Take for example the symbol of Nahu iOllin from for example Codex Borbonicus show above.
According to wikipedia, Nahui Ollin is related to the legend of Quetzalcoatl and his journey to Mictlan (at first approach think about it as the underworld or land of the dead) to gather bones from the previous age and initiate a process of re-birthing humanity after its previous catastrophic end. So it could be interpreted that Nahui Ollin as a is alluding to the four preceding suns or ages in history and the rise of the fifth sun “from the remnant matter of an earlier age of humanity.
Ollin has also been described as being composed of four (Nahui) concepts, Tloke (“what is near”) or the principle of generation, Nahuake (“what is closed”) or the principle of…
