codices
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noun
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A symbol of status, carmine red was already employed by the nobility of Mexico’s Indigenous peoples to dye garments, and widely used in the arts, to write codices, decorate ceramics and paint murals.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2023
They also used codices, book-like records drawn on bark paper that combined both images and pictograms.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Starting from this perspective, Dr. Ezcurra and his co-authors present a calendar model that matches the location of the sun on the horizon to festivities cited in Mesoamerican codices.
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2022
After the arrival of the Spanish in the early 16th century, colonizers destroyed countless codices as well as the Maya glyph system, and the long-term, quantitative sky tracking it enabled.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 1, 2022
The tlamatini, who “himself was writing and wisdom,” was expected to write and maintain the codices and live in a way that set a moral example.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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