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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.
Contents
Foreword by F. Kent Reilly III
Author's Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction by John M. D. Pohl
Part One
Chapter 1: It Happened Long Ago
Chapter 2: The People of the Codices
Chapter 3: The Narrative Structure of Codex Zouche-Nuttall Obverse
Chapter 4: Sacred Geography, Personified Geography
Chapter 5: Caves in Mesoamerican Iconography: Chalcatzingo and the Mixteca
Part Two
Chapter 6: Lord Eight Wind's Introduction
Chapter 7: The War from Heaven, Part One
Chapter 8: The War from Heaven, Part Two
Chapter 9: Lord Eight Wind's Family
Chapter 10: Transition to the Future: Eight Wind, Two Rain, and Eight Deer
Part Three
Chapter 11: Rituals of Order: Codices Zouche-Nuttall and Vienna
Chapter 12: The Problem of the Two Dead Lords
Chapter 13: The Epiclassic Mixtec Ceremonial Complex
Appendix I: Biographical Sketches of Major Personnel from the Codices: Lord Eight Deer the Usurper, Lord Two Rain the King, and Lady Six Monkey of Jaltepec
Appendix II: Notes for Codex Zouche-Nuttall Pages 1-4
Appendix III: Codex Zouche-Nuttall Reverse Day Dates on Pages 46a-48a for Year 5 Reed (AD 1095) and Lord Eight Deer's Campaign as Lord of Tututepec
Notes
Bibliography
Index
