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Whilst this gesture is common in particularly #Mixtec codices (pic from the Zouche-Nuttall/Tonindeyé codex), its meaning is likely to be prosaic: either a ceremonial greeting or a 'request-acceptance' sign. Learn more here -
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There are 5 basic ways to make clothes, and the #Aztecs/#Mexica used them all!
• ‘draped garments’
• ‘slip-on garments’
• ‘open-sewn garments’
• ‘closed-sewn garments’
• ‘limb-encasing garments’.
Learn more -
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How do you read an #Aztec/#Mesoamerican #codex? Most are unidirectional screenfolds so the reading order follows a single story line. But several #Mixtec ones follow a 'boustrophedon' format, as a field is ploughed -
https://t.co/zhceERpLEq
Original graphic thanks to @Zotzcomic

Who said the #Mexica/#Aztecs didn't have fun? Book 2 of the Florentine Codex has a lovely description of annual pillow fights: boys threw stuffed bags at girls, who chased the boys with cactus spines...! Latest in our GIF OFFERINGS section -
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Sample #animation from Book 2 of the Florentine #Codex ('The Ceremonies') in our new GIF OFFERINGS section. In general the #Mexica/#Aztecs kept their world v clean - getting dirty (by association close to the sacred) was limited to ritual occasions...
https://t.co/86k2dI1APM

Our brand new feature on the #ayotl (turtle shell drum) - thought to be the ancestor of the #Mexica #Aztec #teponaztli / #Maya #tunkul (two-toned slit drum) and one of the oldest musical instruments anywhere...
https://t.co/m7sYxc71rW

As calls grow for Scotland to pardon C16 witch-hunt victims 'we must remember that "witchcraft" and "sorcery" are Western terms, loaded with historical baggage with a slew of negative connotations'. Read our article on ancient #Mexico by Jeremy D. Coltman
https://t.co/wlgVpe0eX9

Ode to #jade beads (#Aztec #limerick no. 33)
On your journey to Mictlan you’ll need
Warm clothing, food, drink… and a bead;
We know it sounds funny
But the jade was like money
To pay for your soul to be freed.
Pic thanks to Steve Radzi
Our latest article
https://t.co/sWdGw01ZW8

Our latest #limerick - an ode to #Aztec/#Mexica warrior-musicians:-
There was a young man from Otumba
Who fought as if dancing the rumba.
He brandished obsidian,
His movement Euclidean
To the rhythm of Zumba que Zumba.
Illustration © Thomas Haller Buchanan
https://t.co/xt5QIalKQP

For years scholars struggled with the #Nahuatl term #ixiptla - representative, delegate, substitute, image, impersonator, likeness, representation, character, localised/deity embodiment, god presenter...
They were key to #Aztec/#Mexica human sacrifices -
https://t.co/wGxeun0jh1