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Early History of the Toltecs

A few millennia ago there was a community of groups formed in Mesoamerica close to what is now Mexico City. What happened is this. You’re familiar with what cults are, right? Many spiritual groups are small; some are very big. Imagine a situation where a lot of these small groups cannot operate, as in Russia, Cuba, China—even in the U.S. when paranoia reigns. Many of these groups sought to find a place where they could practice their spiritual craft and where they could bring their group work without being threatened. There were all these empires everywhere. Europe wanted to rebuild Rome. The Incas, the Aztecs, everybody wanted to do that, as if everyone remembered a period of one world government broken to pieces like Humpty Dumpty and of when knowledge was lost. There are priestesses and priests who have pieces of that. While this big mass of humanity is trying to build empires, conquer, create trade, create technology, there were smaller groups who also remembered what it was like and did not want it to be that way again. They did not want magic to be dominated by the aristocrats. A bunch of those little groups made a trip to Teotihuacan, a place in the middle of a vast desert. No one was interested in that area, so they thought they would be left alone for a long time (similar to what the Tibetans did by settling in the mountains).

After the Toltecs were gone for two hundred years, the Aztecs migrated from the north and discovered it. Mostly from Apache descent, these warriors came down and had a vision and were looking for an eagle eating a snake on top of a cactus. And they found it in the middle of a lake—Texcoco. They built their city there in the middle of the lake. When the Spaniards saw it with Cortez, they wrote that they never saw any city as magnificent as that one. The

Aztecs came there and found ruins in Teotihuacan, but they saw two pyramids and a cavern close by. Most people would walk the path leading to the Pyramid of Moon. There is no path at all to Pyramid of the Sun. That’s amazing. Later in the course you will know why that is amazing.

Some of the most useful and important secrets are in this geography. Hint: most of the people follow the path that has been set for them and they go and give their offerings to the Moon. To get to the Sun, you have to break away on your own and walk a pathless land. The pyramids are divided in three levels, so there are inclines and resting points. The pyramids here are truncated so you can stand on top. They didn’t have enough money to finish it. They rented the top to the Masons in the U.S. so they could put it on the dollar bill. But the way up was not straight because your feet are too big. You have to go up in a zigzag (the serpent path, the caduceus of Hermes). So the ultimate solar being cannot be approached directly. You have to hunt it, stalk it, and almost pretend you are not going there. You go to the top indirectly. That tells you something about their methods. There’s always a cavern too and it faces the same direction that the sweat lodges face. If you’re curious, look at the way that the Qumran Society of the Essenes was set up. They had a similar cavern, and so did the other incarnations of that group as well as the Egyptians with the Pyramid of Cheops, the Sphinx, and the underground passages. This cavern at Teotihuacan was natural. Many groups unrelated to one another but with a common philosophy and similar ways of working came together there. It was like Woodstock with discipline. They got together and formed a society that came later to be known as the Toltecs. The secrets they brought from different places in the world were interchanged. It was a consciously formed society, the purpose of which was to "escape this planet," to transform themselves.

When the Aztecs found the ruins, they were amazed. They thought, this city could only have been made for gods. They called it Teotihuacan. This does not mean City of Gods. It means The City from Which Gods Are Made. My benefactor comes from a line of priests, of priestesses, and of shamans, that trace their origins to Teotihuacan, to the Toltecs. And from there to different places: India and Mongolia.

Koyote the Blind

Koyote the Blind is an Hablador (Master Storyteller) in the 10th-century Toltec tradition. He is also the one responsible for bringing the Aka Dua to the public in the Western Hemisphere. The Tequihua Foundation has attempted to assist him in that aim.

The Tonal is excerpted from the book Teachings of a Toltec Survivor by Koyote the Blind. The book is a record of the magically created performance of Koyote during the twelve weeks between the Spring Equinox and the Summer Solstice in 2007.

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