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Any day we uncover more texts that somehow escaped the Spanish book burnings is a good day.
Always makes me sad to think about all the literature lost with the Maya codices.
I couldn't agree more. Mayan, Mixtec, Tlaxcallan, and dozens of other cultures had the majority of their history obliterated. Knowledge built through millennia burned in a couple centuries.
Not just history either but art. Barely any poetry survives, and I'm sure there were other works of fiction lost, like stories of myths and legends.
I've got a couple books translated from Nahuatl into English that have some of the flowery words of the tlamatinime, "Scattering of Jades" and "Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World". They are very precious because like you said barely anything survives. It's incredibly sad.
Amazing that this survived in private hands.
The Spanish burnt all they could find for quite a while for βChristianβ reasons. So much knowledge lost forever.
The Spanish sure did rob and murder a lot of people
Yep they got Altepetl(s) and Xiuhpohualli day signs as year markers drawn on to them, they are codices.
Hope I can get some high quality scans of them.
LOL! He misspelled Huitzilopoztlic! It's a really easy mistake! Clearly it has one less trumpet πΊ!
I can't find that word in the article. Do you mean the Spanish translator for Nahuatl from the 1600's wrote the wrong name for Huitzilopochtli on the amatl? That happened a lot.
OMG! I was just kidding! From northopetl to southchtl, there's always one! It's all part of Godls Grandptotlalpan's plan.
I'm absolutely confused about what you are trying to communicate.