Mesoamerican Creatures

Mesoamerican materials cover highland and lowland civilisations with city planning, sacred mountains, and water temples. Core sources include painted codices, stelae, temple reliefs, and colonial compilations recorded with Indigenous testimony. Calendars, ritual cycles, and the ballgame structure narratives of creation, duty, and renewal across periods. Names and terms appear in Nahuatl, Maya languages, and other families, so cards provide transliterations and glosses. Motifs include maize cultivation, rain and lightning, caves and cenotes, and journeys between underworld and sky. Tiles let you scan by polity, region, or motif, then open entries for sources, iconography, and scholarly notes.