Antonio Velasco Piña (8 September 1935 – 27 December 2020) was a Mexican novelist, spiritual writer, essayist, lawyer and historian. He was the founder of ''La Nueva Mexicanidad'', a group advocating the ''Mexicanist'' or ''Mexicanista'' (

Mexicayotl Mexicayotl (Nahuatl word meaning "Essence of the Mexican", "Mexicanity"; Spanish: ''Mexicanidad''; see '' -yotl'') is a movement that aims to revive the Indigenous religion, philosophy and traditions of ancient Mexico ( Aztec religion and Azt ...

) movement purportedly based on

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and Aztec superiority over all other Americas indigenous tribes. The movement is partly inspired by the writings of French anthropologist

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who specialized on Aztec and Mesoamerican spirituality. ''El círculo negro'' (2005) presents a

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according to which Mexico during the mid 20th century was governed by a secret society called "The Black Circle", the descendants of The Aztec Triple Alliance Elite which supposedly assassinated Mexican presidents who sought reelection, rewriting history and propagandizing Aztec culture over all Mexicans and American Chicanos. Piña died from COVID-19 on 27 December, 2020 in

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Bibliography

* ''Aníbal y Escipión'' (2013) * ''El retorno de las águilas y los jaguares'' (2012)
(«Bibliografía Completa»). * ''Los siete rayos'' (2010) * ''Dos guerreros olmecas'' (2010) * ''Cartas a Elisabeth'' (2009) * ''El retorno de lo sagrado'' (2009) * ''El Círculo Negro'' (2005) * ''San Judas Tadeo'' * ''Regina - Tlatelolco massacre, Dos de octubre no se olvida'' (1987) * ''El despertar de Teotihuacán'' (1994) * '' Tlacaélel, el azteca entre los aztecas'' * ''La mujer dormida debe dar a luz''

References

*Jelena Galovic, ''Los grupos místico-espirituales de la actualidad'', Plaza y Valdes, 2002,
137-158

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20100830071846/http://antoniovelascopina.mx/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Velasco Pina, Antonio Mexican male writers 1935 births New Age writers Mexican conspiracy theorists 2020 deaths Mexican modern pagans Modern pagan writers Modern pagan novelists Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico