Azoyú Codex
Azoyú 1 Codex or “the Kingdom of Tlachinollan” that means, place among burnt fields.
The codices are made of bark paper with plaster and painted with dyes the prehispanics extracted from the cochineal bug or red soil (clay). The codex should be kept under certain humidity, temperature and light conditions, otherwise they deteriorate.
The originals are in the Museum of Antropology and History at Mexico City. The Azoyú Codex is a document elaborated in a logopictographic way, made between the XV and XVI century. It narrates the history between 1300 and 1565 A.D., in 38 sheets of 7 years each, which is in total a history of 266 years. It was found in 1940 by Eng. Francisco Rodríguez at a church in Azoyú Guerrero. Then in 1942, Alfonso Caso, Salvador Toscano and Alfonso Ortega obtain permission to move this document to Mexico´s National Museum.
This kingdom was stablished near Guerrero´s capital, Chilpancingo and near Acapulco.
It’s 23.3 cm by 20.5 cm with a total of 8.55m long.
“The Kingdom of Tlachinollan” region includes 22 villages that today are located in the states of Morelos, Oaxaca and Guerrero of today’s Mexican Republic. These villages talked the Tlapanecan, Mixtec and Nahuatl language. Finally, on these sheets, the most important gods that participate are Wind, Deer, Herb and Movement.
In this presentation, we’re trying to rescue the historic value of this prehispanic village, the influence of which was very important. The tribute that people paid to the Aztecs stands out and it also shows how much the prehipanics worked out and the frequent human sacrifices. We can observe how the Spanish arrival changed the authority, religion and custom concepts.