Alex Arcane
alexarcane.bsky.social
Alex Arcane
@alexarcane.bsky.social
Avid anthropologist,
Wannabe salsa dancer.
Current project: Meso-American Codex Deep Dive
8-Deer Tiger Claw” is a difficult name to parse. Fortunately, we get his portrait in the text. From Codex Tonindeye, p 26, we see him in dress surrounded by several icons. Top left, see a deer with horns, and a string of 8beads attached to it. Beside it lies the tiger claw motif. In the low left,
December 1, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Take the Codex Zouche-Nuttall, named after Rockstar Mexican-American archaeologist Zelie Nuttall, and Baron Zouche, who held it in a private collection. It’s better to know it as “Codex Tonindeye” a Mixtec name that means something like “Chronicle” which describes what the text is.
November 24, 2025 at 3:20 AM