Open AccessMixteca genealogies . Dynastic history? Mythology? or cosmology? The case of Lord 8-Deer
Author(s) -
Arnold Lebeuf
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
estudios latinoamericanos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0137-3080
DOI - 10.36447/estudios2018.v38.art4
Subject(s) - mythology , narrative , interpretation (philosophy) , character (mathematics) , literature , history , narrative history , genealogy , philosophy , art , linguistics , geometry , mathematics
This essay overviews the interpretations of the narrative of a character called 8-Mazatl from Mixtec codices. While there has been a recent interpretation that tried again to understand this narrative as a historical source, more traditional interpretations linked the narrative to mythological characters and events.
This paper explores the possibility of using the mythological interpretations of celestial bodies to link the story to the long scale cycles related with eclipses.