Nezahualcoyotl · Philosophy
The Texcocan tradition’s reach toward a single, invisible, unknowable Giver of Life - <em>Tloque Nahuaque</em>, ‘the Lord of the Near and the Close’ - and the temple to ‘the unknown god’ reported by the colonial chronicler Ixtlilxochitl, read with the caution such a source demands.
You learned that the Nezahualcoyotl tradition reaches toward Tloque Nahuaque / Ipalnemohuani - the ‘Lord of the Near and the Close,’ the ‘Giver of Life’ - an unknowable divine addressed as invisible and self-creating; and that his descendant Ixtlilxochitl reported a temple to ‘the unknown…
Leads to Xenophanes.
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