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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young Aztec girl tells her little brother how their parents create beautiful painted manuscripts, or codices. She explains to him how paper is made from local plants and how the long paper is folded into a book. Her parents and others paint the codices to tell the story of their people's way of life, documenting their history, science, tributes, and sacred rituals. Duncan Tonatiuh's lyrical prose and beloved illustration style, inspired by the...
Author
Publisher
Oceano
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"La profecía del Coyote hambriento lo decía: habría de salvar al pueblo chichimeca del tirano Tezozómoc, aquel que juró en su juventud recuperar la grandeza del señorío de Azcapotzalco; aquel que logró unir las voluntades de varios pueblos y alzar los cimientos de una civilización que se convirtió en imperio; aquel que sería el primer gran ejemplo de la política brutal y sanguinaria que dominaría el Valle de México por más de un siglo....
Author
Series
Grandes tlatoanis del imperio volume 2
Publisher
Editorial Océano de México
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Tras la muerte de Tezozómoc, la rivalidad entre los señoríos del Valle del Anáhuac aumenta, y nadie escapa a la violencia, la traición y la lucha abierta y encubierta por el poder. En Azcapotzalco, Maxtla gobierna con crueldad absoluta. En Tenochtitlan, a la vez que se unge a Izcóatl como tlatoani después del secuestro y asesinato de Chimalpopoca, el astuto Tlacaélel aguarda tras bambalinas para consolidar su influencia. Y exiliado de Texcoco,...
Author
Series
Codex Black volume 1
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Navigate through monsters, mysteries, and the will of the gods with two young extraordinary adventurers in fifteenth-century Mesoamerica as they search for a missing father. Donají is a fearless Zapotec girl who, even though she's only fifteen, is heralded as a hero by her village. In Codex Black, Donají sets out on an adventure-accompanied by the god that lives inside of her poncho-to find her missing father. Along the way, she meets a 17-year-old...
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