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Semi relevant, but Aztecs did not use books in quite the same way we do. They were mostly illustrations or symbolic glyphs and the real information was passed o
by yareally 14y ago
Semi relevant, but Aztecs did not use books in quite the same way we do. They were mostly illustrations or symbolic glyphs and the real information was passed on orally[1].
I've never heard anything about burning of such books though. Do you have a source you could share?
[1] http://www.plu.edu/~tother/essays/ethnohistory-how.html http://www.plu.edu/~tother/essays/ethnohistory-how.html
- rmc 14y agoIt was the Mayan books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_codices http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_codices