The ancient Americans, like all primitive peoples, They felt the breath of natu

The ancient Americans, like all primitive peoples, They felt the breath of nature up close. His spirit had from the first awakening, the vision of the jungle and the mountain. The manifestations of the prodigious natural forces made them germinate an understanding of the extra-human., and hence the birth of their wild and strange idolatries. The supernatural attracts them. The deities communicate with them in the forests, in the rivers, in the starlight. Enlightened by an Eastern civilization or raised by a civilization of their own, Their vast intellects tend towards their progressive development. They are superstitious and visionaries. A barbarian and tattooed Numa will consult a terrible Egeria; The tribe will await the word of direction or advice from the mouth of the elders.. Gray hair, the treasure of experience, will be considered valuable by them. The invisible gods will approach the old pythonesses and the patriarchs of the forest to reveal the fate of the people and to predict the triumph or failure of the maces and arrows.. The Indians had harmonious languages, mysterious and onomatopoeic languages. They did not ignore the divine value of poetry. They liked the symbol and the verse. Among the Mexicans a prince rhymes odes and prayers; Among the Ecuadorian tribes, one of them has two dialects, one soft and calm., that is used in times of peace; another rough and vibrant, that is used for war. The servants of the Inca tune their sorrows into the touching music of the yaraví; and in Central America, The cyclical poet of the Popol Vuh raises the soul of his race. There is the family, The city rises and the idea will be perpetuated with hieroglyphic writings and reliefs; the monumental palace or temple embroidered with symbolic stone florescence will be erected; will arise, A nice one, like a sun, the art. Love the bright, the pompous one, the color, the line, The bright, the nuance. Gold will be used from the Indian earrings, even on the throne of