Madrid Codex

Four books from an entire civilization's literary output.

The Dresden Codex, the Madrid Codex, the Paris Codex, the Grolier Codex, whose authenticity was debated for decades before being confirmed in 2016.

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Everything else is gone, not lost, not misplaced, not hidden, burned, deliberately destroyed by a man who believed he was saving souls.

Yeah, they were hunting all sorts of stuff.

In those particular ones, uh, the, the Madrid Codex, the one that's, uh, that's in Madrid now, it shows, it's got like 10 pages full of deer hunting.

They were hunting a lot of deer.

They were domesticating turkeys, and they're in the same kind of pages too about like when to best slaughter turkeys, I think.

And we know about the Dresden Codex because it has this Venus chart in it.

But there's also the Madrid Codex, the Paris Codex, the Maya Codex of Mexico, and the Pupil Vu, and the books of Chilam Bam, all have something to say about the importance of cosmology in the Maya world.

And when you bring them all together, It's curious because the study of the Venus document by itself how the Maya were able to chart these various seasonal changes in the planet Venus are beyond comprehension.

And what that means is that the thinking is that the Maya were sky watchers.