Mixtec culture
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The Mixtec culture was a pre-Columbian archaeological culture, corresponding to the ancestors of the Mixtec people; they called themselves Ñuu savi, which means "people or nation of the rain". It had
Landscape of the Acatlán valley, near San Jerónimo Xayacatlán (Lowland Mixteca Poblana).
Landscape of La Mixteca, near Nativitas Monte Verde (Oaxaca)
Page 37 of the Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I. The central scene represents, supposedly, the origin of the Mixtecs from a tree that gave birth to the ancestors of this people.
Red-on-Bayo pottery from the Highland Mixteca. Middle Preclassic Period. MNA Collection.
Eight Deer Jaguar Claw
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Eight Deer Jaguar Claw, or Eight Deer for brevity, was a powerful Mixtec ruler in 11th-century Oaxaca referred to in the 15th-century deerskin manuscript Codex Zouche-Nuttall, and other Mixtec manuscr
Mixtec culture
…Mixteca became obsolete and were forgotten. The conditions that allowed the flourishing of the Mixtec culture took place from the 13th century onwards. Eight Deer Jaguar Claw's political temperament led him to consolidate the Mixtec presence in La Costa. There he founded the kingdom of Tututepec (Yucudzáa) and later undertook…
Codex Zouche-Nuttall, Mixtec pictorial codex, which is the main source of knowledge about Eight Deer Jaguar Claw