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It makes me very happy to see ancient texts digitized for the world to see. If only the Spaniards hadn't burned every codex they could get their hands on. The
by tastyfreeze 3y ago
It makes me very happy to see ancient texts digitized for the world to see.
If only the Spaniards hadn't burned every codex they could get their hands on. There are 12 surviving pre-contact Aztec codexes. The Aztecs produced 480000 sheets of paper annually. That amounts to heaps of records and knowledge that was destroyed.
- ftyers 3y agoTrue, but it's also interesting to see what survived. My wife is a Nahuatl speaker, and some of the stuff in the book on Omens is still part of the culture, e.g. About owls being a sign of death.