Rober D z. Pen 360 Press [P360P]
For the ancient inhabitants of the great Tenochtitl, dualities, as we know them today, did not exist as such; for example, a distinction must be made between life and existence. Existence?nemiliztl, in the N uatl? language, corresponds to the nocturnal part that begins at birth: tlacatiliztliand ends with death ?miquiztli?; that is, death was represented as a dark phase in which the life cycle began to renew itself.
For them, death was only a moment of organic and functional relaxation that prepared a new existence, but this can only be understood by briefly reviewing the way in which the Mexicas see time: