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<p><span style="left: 93.4032px; top: 971.988px; font-size: 10px;
font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.17632);">TEOTL</span><span
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font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.792715);"></span><span
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font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.770084);"><br>
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<span style="left: 94.0033px; top: 92.8272px; font-size: 17.5px;
font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.770084);"><span
style="left: 112.941px; top: 860.246px; font-size: 15px;
font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.65391);"></span><span
style="left: 92.1673px; top: 882.741px; font-size: 17.5px;
font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.752651);">At the heart
of Aztec metaphysics stands the onto-</span><span style="left:
77.3098px; top: 904.406px; font-size: 17.5px; font-family:
serif; transform: scaleX(0.751627);">logical thesis that there
exists just one thing: continually</span> dynamic, vivifying,
self-generating and self-regenerating sacred power, force, or </span><span
style="left: 94.0033px; top: 114.492px; font-size: 17.5px;
font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.795311);">energy. The
Aztecs referred to this energy as </span><span style="left:
416.595px; top: 114.492px; font-size: 17.5px; font-family:
serif; transform: scaleX(0.696116);">teotl</span><span
style="left: 444.822px; top: 114.492px; font-size: 17.5px;
font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.818006);">. Teotl is
identical with real-</span><span style="left: 93.9683px; top:
136.157px; font-size: 17.5px; font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.730784);">ity per se and hence identical with
everything that exists. What’s more, teotl </span><span
style="left: 93.9683px; top: 157.822px; font-size: 17.5px;
font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.731499);">is the basic
stuff of reality. That which is real, in other words, is both
identi-</span><span style="left: 94.0033px; top: 179.487px;
font-size: 17.5px; font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.74417);">cal with teotl and consists of teotl. Aztec
metaphysics thus holds that there </span><span style="left:
94.0033px; top: 201.152px; font-size: 17.5px; font-family:
serif; transform: scaleX(0.749867);">exists </span><span
style="left: 136.756px; top: 201.152px; font-size: 17.5px;
font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.738291);">numerically</span><span
style="left: 214.104px; top: 201.152px; font-size: 17.5px;
font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.807073);"> only one
thing – energy – as well as only one </span><span style="left:
542.031px; top: 201.152px; font-size: 17.5px; font-family:
serif; transform: scaleX(0.774375);">kind</span><span
style="left: 571.974px; top: 201.152px; font-size: 17.5px;
font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.847897);"> of thing – </span><span
style="left: 94.0033px; top: 222.817px; font-size: 17.5px;
font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.784199);">energy.
Reality consists of just one thing, teotl, and this one thing is
metaphysi-</span><span style="left: 94.0033px; top: 244.482px;
font-size: 17.5px; font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.738221);">cally homogeneous. Reality consists of just
one kind of stuff: power or force. </span><span style="left:
92.8483px; top: 266.147px; font-size: 17.5px; font-family:
serif; transform: scaleX(0.800055);">Taking a page from the
metaphysical views of contemporary Mixtec-speaking </span><span
style="left: 93.3033px; top: 287.812px; font-size: 17.5px;
font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.804094);">Nuyootecos of
the Mixteca Alta, we might think of teotl as something akin to </span><span
style="left: 94.0033px; top: 309.477px; font-size: 17.5px;
font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.801403);">electricity.
Nuyootecos speak of a single, all-encompassing energy, </span><span
style="left: 572.802px; top: 309.477px; font-size: 17.5px;
font-family: serif;">y</span><span style="left: 580.066px; top:
309.477px; font-size: 17.5px; font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.9125);">ii</span><span style="left: 590.29px; top:
309.494px; font-size: 17.5px; font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.834545);">, which </span><span style="left: 93.7798px;
top: 331.159px; font-size: 17.5px; font-family: serif;
transform: scaleX(0.772268);">they liken to electricity.</span><span
style="left: 268.003px; top: 332.645px; font-size: 10.2025px;
font-family: serif;">2</span><span style="left: 272.4px; top:
331.161px; font-size: 17.5px; font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.753217);"> What’s more, the Aztecs regarded teotl as
sacred. </span><span style="left: 92.1673px; top: 352.826px;
font-size: 17.5px; font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.785713);">Although everywhere and in everything, teotl
presents itself most dramatically </span><span style="left:
88.9823px; top: 374.491px; font-size: 17.5px; font-family:
serif; transform: scaleX(0.783381);">– and is accordingly sensed
most vibrantly by humans – in the vivifying potency </span><span
style="left: 94.0398px; top: 396.156px; font-size: 17.5px;
font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.768955);">of water,
sexual activity, blood, heat, sunlight, jade, the singing of
birds, and the </span><span style="left: 93.9698px; top:
417.821px; font-size: 17.5px; font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.763033);">iridescent blue-green plumage of the quetzal
bird. As the single, all-encom-</span><span style="left:
93.9348px; top: 439.486px; font-size: 17.5px; font-family:
serif; transform: scaleX(0.807883);">passing life force of the
cosmos, teotl vivifies the cosmos and all its contents. </span><span
style="left: 93.1298px; top: 461.151px; font-size: 17.5px;
font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.811885);">Everything
that happens does so through teotl’s perpetual energy-in-motion.
</span><span style="left: 92.8498px; top: 482.816px; font-size:
17.5px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.805706);">Teotl
is the continuing “life-flow of creation”:</span><span
style="left: 415.641px; top: 484.312px; font-size: 10.2025px;
font-family: serif;">3</span><span style="left: 419.63px; top:
482.827px; font-size: 17.5px; font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.781945);"> “a vast ocean of impersonal cre-</span><span
style="left: 94.1298px; top: 504.492px; font-size: 17.5px;
font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.761961);">ative energy.”</span><span
style="left: 187.455px; top: 505.979px; font-size: 10.2025px;
font-family: serif;">4</span></p>
<p><span style="left: 187.455px; top: 505.979px; font-size:
10.2025px; font-family: serif;">--p. 21 Aztec Philosophy<br>
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10.2025px; font-family: serif;">[...]</span></p>
<p><span style="left: 187.455px; top: 505.979px; font-size:
10.2025px; font-family: serif;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://iep.utm.edu/aztec/#H2">https://iep.utm.edu/aztec/#H2</a><br>
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<p><span style="left: 187.455px; top: 505.979px; font-size:
10.2025px; font-family: serif;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teotl">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teotl</a><br>
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