CONCLUSION

Malinalli motion-change plays a vital and indispensable role in the becoming and processing of the Fifth Sun, Fifth Age, and all inhabitants of the Fifth Age. If olin motion-change constitutes the biorhythm of the Fifth Sun, Fifth Age, and all inhabitants of the Fifth Age, then malinalli motion-change constitutes the shape of the conveyance, circulation, and recycling of vital energies that initiate, nourish, fortify, and complete these olin-defined biorhythms. Olin-defined processes need nourishing and malinalli processes supply them with such nourishment. If we think of olin as the beating heart of the Fifth Age, then we should think of malinalli as the twisting arteries, veins, and entrails through which circulates the energy that nourishes that beating heart. These twisting and gyrating paths of circulating energy function as the energy-conveying and life-sustaining bloodstream/foodstream of the Fifth Age. Malinalli motion-change figures prominently in Aztec rituals because it makes possible humankind’s active participation in the regeneration and continuation of the Fifth Age.

Like olin motion-change, malinalli motion-change is not a kind of life-energy but rather one of three principal shapes and orderings of life-energy in the cosmos. Like olin, malinalli refers to a specific kind of quantitative and qualitative motion-change. If olin motion-change constitutes the pattern of motion-change involved in the transmission of energy within and across olin-organized, four-phased life~death cycles, then malinaUi motion-change constitutes the pattern of motion-change involved in actively transmitting energy between vertical layers of the Fifth Sun-Earth Ordering (e. g., the Above, the Below, and Tlalticpac; humans, Sun, and Earth); between the olin-defined life-cycles of different kinds of things (e. g., between Sun and grass, grass and rabbit, rabbit and human, human and Sun, Sun and grass, and so on); and between different conditions of the same thing (e. g., disorderly raw cotton and orderly thread; raw foodstuffs and cooked foodstuffs; tlazolli-ridden wrongdoer and purified wrongdoer before and after confessing to Tezcatlipoca; and disorderly captives and orderly foodstuff during Tlacalxipehualiztli). Finally, like olin motion-change, malinalli motion-change binds together inamic partners such as life~death, being~nonbeing, dry~wet, and male~female into agonistic unity. But unlike olin, malinalli does so by twisting, spinning, drilling, and coiling.