Kommentar: The Mixtec, or the people of Ñuu Savi, on the major civilizations of ancient Mesoamerica, nade their home in the highlands of Oaxaca, where they resisted both Aztec military expansion and the Spanish conquest. In “Encounter with the Plumed Serpent”, two leading scholars present and interpret the sacred histories narrated in the Mixtec codices, the largest surviving collection of pre-Columbian manuscipts in existence. In these screenfold books, ancient painter-historians schronicled the politics of the Mixtec from approximately A.D. 900 to 1521, portraying the royal families, rituals, wars, aliances, and odeology of the times.
