Topializ, the action of preserving something.

What corresponds to us should be guarded or maintained; that which we had in posession should have been preserved
Topializ: the idea of being in possession of a legacy, implied the need and obligation of preserving it, in favor above all, for all its own descendents.

 

Miguel Leon-Portilla (Writer and Scholar from Mexico City)

Tonacayotl, our sustenance

One of the oldest cosmic myths of the Nahuatl culture--the invention of corn.
Quetzalcoatl, the cultural hero that symbolizes the wisdom of Tloque Nahuaque or Supreme God, owner of the near and together, found the red ant and asked where he could find the corn. The ant led him there and Quetzalcoatl was transformed into a black ant in order to be able to enter the Mound of our Substenance.

Quetzalcoatl took the corn and put it on the lips of the first human beings, Oxomoco y Cipactonal. He gave them corn to eat so that they would become strong. They knew that it wouldn’t be enough to have a few kernels, instead they would need to possess corn in abundance in order to cultivate it and to assure its existence forever in the lives of men.

So then the Tlaloques which symbolize rain and who live in the tallest parts of the mountains, respond quickly to the four corners of the universe, and they all come down to give life to the corn with their rain. At the same time, Nanáhuatl threw a lightning bolt which opened the Mound of Our Sustenance forever.
From here the corn came forth in all its colors--white, dark, yellow and red; the beans, the chia, the bledos, and in a word, all that constitutes our sustenance.

Miguel Leon-Portilla (Writer and Scholar from Mexico City)