In the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican world, histories and
collections of ritual knowledge were often presented in the form of
painted and folded books now known as codices, and the knowledge
itself was encoded into pictographs. Eight codices have survived
from the Mixtec peoples of ancient Oaxaca, Mexico; a part of one of
them, the Codex Zouche-Nuttall, is the subject of this book. As a
group, the Mixtec codices contain the longest detailed histories
and royal genealogies known for any indigenous people in the
western hemisphere. The Codex Zouche-Nuttall offers a unique window
into how the Mixtecs themselves viewed their social and political
cosmos without the bias of western European interpretation. At the
same time, however, the complex calendrical information recorded in
the Zouche-Nuttall has made it resistant to historical,
chronological analysis, thereby rendering its narrative
obscure.
In this pathfinding work, Robert Lloyd Williams presents a
methodology for reading the Codex Zouche-Nuttall that unlocks its
essentially linear historical chronology. Recognizing that the
codex is a combination of history in the European sense and the
timelessness of myth in the Native American sense, he brings to
vivid life the history of Lord Eight Wind of Suchixtlan (AD
935-1027), a ruler with the attributes of both man and deity, as
well as other heroic Oaxacan figures. Williams also provides
context for the history of Lord Eight Wind through essays dealing
with Mixtec ceremonial rites and social structure, drawn from
information in five surviving Mixtec codices.
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