Códices Mixtecos

Learn to read the Mixtec codices made in Ñuu Savi over 500 years ago

You will learn to read the codices or pictorial manuscripts of the Mixtec culture, one of the Mesoamerican towns most recognized for their artistic quality.

You will discover what codices are, where they are and how they are read.

You will learn to recognize the iconographic elements contained in the precolonial codices of the Mixtec culture, such as dates, places, characters, etc.

You will learn to read the codices in Tuhun Savi (the language of the rain) in the variant of Santo Tomás Ocotepec (Oaxaca, Mexico) today and how some terms were known in the variant of Teposcolula in the sixteenth century.

You will revalue your past, present and visualize a future with the learning of this valuable cultural legacy of Ñuu Savi (people or nation of Rain) for humanity.