The Great Ones · Mesoamerica

8 Deer Jaguar Claw

1063–1115

Mixtec ruler whose deeds fill the surviving painted codices.

8 Deer Jaguar Claw (1063–1115) endures among the great of Mesoamerica. Mixtec ruler whose deeds fill the surviving painted codices.

Across the medieval age, this life and its works passed into the shared inheritance of humankind — kept here so the memory is never lost.

Honored among the Great Ones of every civilization. Africa is the cradle of humankind; in the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors — and so this name is kept, from the cradle of humanity to all its children.

Submitted with honor.

Submitted by the Honored Ancestors Editorial Committee.