I remember I read in one of those researches about the Nahuas, written
by Miguel Leon Portilla, that some prehispanic sculptures held a
scepter-like drilled mirror,
which served as a peeking hole where the deities would see the human issues.
This text not only created in my mind the image of a being looking through a
kind of frame, but also the idea of a frame in which the watching subject is
reflected, thus proposing a perception of the otherness where the observer is
included in the visual field. These old men understood the concept of light in
a similar way to other civilizations; they talked about the light in some poems
allusive to knowledge and wisdom, as some of the old civilizations of the
Mediterranean and Asia -just to cite some of greater historical influence -
also mentioned in some of their writings.