Nezahualcoyotl · Philosophy

Where Do We Go? Doubt and the Answer of Friendship

The songs’ open questioning of the afterlife - ‘Do we live again? Does anyone return?’ - set against the confident cosmology of official Aztec religion, and the tradition’s tender, this-worldly answer: enjoy the flowers, the songs, and above all the friends, here, while we are together.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that the songs question the afterlife openly - doubting whether we live again, noting that no one returns to tell us the road - against the official Aztec religion’s confident map of the dead, and that their answer to the doubt is the ‘carpe diem’ of friendship: enjoy the flowers and song…

Leads to Omar Khayyam.

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