Match the Mixtec codex element with its description.
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1. The woman's name is (Lady) 10 Serpent.
2. The man is Lord 5 Reed "Twenty Jaguars" (with personal name drawn to the side).
3. Standing before a temple is Lord 5 Alligator, the high priest of Tilantongo. Like most priests,
he can be identified by his black face and body paint and by the fringed garment he wears—a
xicolli. A stream of blood flows from Lord 5 Alligator's ear to nourish the sacred bundle housed
within the temple.
4. The man is Lord 5 Reed "Warband Flint" (with the personal name held).
5. Depictions of Mixtec kings and queens in the codices typically depict a ruling couple seated
together on thrones and a mat. This image, as well as extensive ethnohistorical evidence,
suggests that both king and queen ruled as equals, for the Mixtec term for "kingdom," yuhui
tayu, is a compound word composed of yuhui, "mat" or "couple" and tayu, "throne." Thus the
image of a king and queen seated together on thrones and a mat symbolically depicts them as
seated in rulership over their polity. Because of the importance of co-rulership, it has even been
argued that Mixtec "kingdoms" are more accurately described as "coupledoms."
6. Year 1 Reed, Day 1 Alligator
Match the Mixtec codex element with its description.
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7. Lord 9 Lizard goes to war. With a bladed spear raised in his right hand, Lord 9 Lizard
assumes the quintessential Mixtec combat position. With his left hand, Lord 9 Lizard grasps the
hair of his opponent, Lord 1 Grass. The defeated warrior bows his head in defeat—another
common militaristic convention.
8. Shows the division of labor – men worked in the fields and women in the home.
9. Both ancient and modern accounts begin with the first attempts of the Mixtec ancestors to
grow corn, attempts which fail due to the interference of the (super)natural world. In the Vienna
account, these first crops are destroyed by hot and cold winds and the rays of a burning sun.
10. Because of the way the 260 and 365 day calendars aligned, only four glyphs could serve as
the name of a year—the "Year Bearer." These four Year Bearers are Reed, Flint, House, and
Rabbit.
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11. Lord 10 Serpent's gender-male attributes are his bangs, combed into a "two-plume" style, his
white loincloth, his red-brown skin, and his crouched-kneeling body position.
12. Lady 10 Serpent's gender-female attributes are her red bangs combed into a half circle, her
rounded cape, her long skirt with its colored border, her gold skin, and her kneeling-with-legstucked-under body position.
13. The figure depicts a singing Mixtec man. In front of his mouth are two scrolls, colored gold,
red, and blue. This is a Mixtec pictorial convention for representing song—a visualization of
voice.
14. Beneath Lord 2 Grass' feet—and decorating the armor he wears—is a band of chevrons
painted black, red, and white. This pattern represents a warband; by walking upon this band,
Lord 2 Grass is literally "on the warpath."
15. A face and body painted in black and grey, like that worn by the man to the left, marks a
member of the priesthood.
16. Lady 1 Flower
1. Lady 6 Monkey confers with an oracle, Lady 9 Grass...
2. ...at Temple of the Skull (Chalcatongo).
3. Temple warriors are armed for battle.
4. Lady 6 Monkey captures two rival elites.
5. Hill of the Moon, Hill of the Insect is conquered.
6. One of Lady 6 Monkey's captives is sacrificed at the temple of Jaltepec.
1. Lord 2 Jaguar and Lady 1 Serpent are married.
2. Lady 1 Serpent's parents are Lord 9 House and Lady 3 Rabbit, rulers of Place of Flowers and of Tilantongo.
3. The son of Lord 2 Jaguar and Lady 1 Serpent, Lord 5 Water, is born.
4. Lord 6 Jaguar and Lady 8 Flower (the daughter of Lord 2 Jaguar and Lady 1 Serpent) are married at Temple of
the Beans, Stone of the Eagle.
5. Lady 7 Rain and Lord 5 Water are married.
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