#Dresden codex

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Dresden Codex

The ancient Maya were adept astronomers who could predict solar eclipses with great accuracy.

They used a complex system of calendars to track celestial events, including solar eclipses.

The Dresden Codex, one of the few surviving pre-Columbian Maya books, contains tables that are thought to be used for predicting solar eclipses.

[bairbrewing]

Review #30

Dresden Code by Human Robot was the perfect beer for the moment but not so much a perfect beer. A great name, a great look but far too hoppy for the style in my opinion. I love Mexican lager but this just tasted like a dark IPA. Balance is key, but even with its fault it was a good beer on a hot late spring day. 6/10

[tiphares]

[thecrankyprofessor]

I do wish we had mmore of them!

Left, a page from the Dresden Codex, a Maya text showing the solar disk, obscured, appearing to hang from a celestial band and about to be devoured by a monster. Right, a page from the Chilam Balam of Chumayel from 1775, explaining that an eclipse does not mean that the sun is bitten, but is caused by the moon’s movements around the Earth. Credit…via Jesús Galindo Trejo

[ravelqueen]

Realising once again that it's just so relaxing and nice to read books with GODDAMN ADULTS as protagonists which is so extremely rare in fantasy so if you have any recs to throw my way it's appreciated

[magicaldogtoto]

I don't know much about Jim Butcher as a person--I barely even know much about him as a writer (I've read some of his Dresden Files short stories, though)--but I hope someone somewhere is archiving his old Livejournal because the essays he has on writing are very useful references.

I can't even count the number of times I've read and re-read them and applied what they say to the stuff I've written. His essay on how to wade through the middle of a story so it you can reach the end and not get bogged down by the stress of being stuck in the middle is literally the main thing that's helped me get through the mid-section of Parallel Worlds Record as I write it out (not to mention the mid-sections of other stuff I've written or are working on, both fanfic and original fic). It would be terrible if no one at least saved the information he provided to share with other writers.

[book--brackets]

May I add the to the fantasy list

Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb

Merovingen Nights by CJ Cherryh

Riftwar saga by Raymond E Feist

Green Rider series by Kristain Britain

Rider at the Gate by CJ Cherryh

Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

Codex Alera by Jim Butcher

Everworld By KA Applegate

The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

The Wandering Inn by Pirateaba

Vows and Honor by Mercedes Lackey

Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McAffery

Wiz Series by Rick Cook

that's all I got for now without adding more series by the same authors (notably Cherryh and Lackey)

I love getting these mile long lists lmao it's the kind of thing I'd submit. I've added them all!

[jurakan]

New Jim Butcher interview!

[thesetwoutes]

-looks at Jim Butcher-

Another storytelling rule I think people should remember is the law of diminishing returns. If you keep on ramping up the stakes higher and higher and higher, after a point it gets to where the audience can’t really care anymore.

[crossbordercroniclesro]

EXCLUSIV: Conform Calendarului Mayaș, Suntem în Anul 2842! Uimitoarele Predicții Ale Unei Civilizații Dispărute!

Ziua 126, Anul 2842 în calendarul Mayaș — ce ar fi prezis marii înțelepți ai acestei civilizații misterioase pentru noi? Uitați tot ce știați despre anul 2024! Dacă am fi folosit calendarul străvechi al civilizației Maya, azi ne-am afla în anul 2842, ziua 126! Da, ați citit bine! Conform sistemului lor incredibil de precis și enigmatic, ne-am fi teleportat deja cu aproape 800 de ani în…

[gingersnapwolves]

random post of the day

I know that Jim Butcher is mostly famous for The Dresden Files but I really feel like The Codex Alera should get more love. I'm re-reading it and realizing what a formative influence Tavi's character was on how I wrote Stiles in The Sum of its Parts. The 'powerless' character who uses his wits, inspires loyalty, makes allies out of his enemies, and has an uncanny knack for finding the third option.

And, I mean, this:

Tavi bared his teeth in a smile. "But we have something the Vord [an enormous army of insect-like creatures] do not." Varg tilted his head to one side. "What is that?" "Ink."

I'd say this is so TSOIP!Stiles-coded, except actually I'm realizing that it was really that when Stiles said things like "You know what would be an exciting development right now? Tax records," and "first we need to go to a kitchen" store it was actually that TSOIP!Stiles was being extremely Tavi-coded

[artifacts-archive]

Turkey Vessel

Veracruz

7th–10th century

In ancient Veracruz and elsewhere in Mesoamerica, turkeys were not just nutritionally important resource animals—they were also esteemed by high-ranking people for ceremonial use. For example, scholars have interpreted images in the Dresden Codex, the oldest of the few Maya manuscripts that still exist, as depicting priests offering sacrificial turkeys to deities to ensure agricultural fertility. Archaeologists have also uncovered turkey bones throughout ancient Mesoamerica in ancient high-status burials and caches as well as in domestic contexts of both elites and commoners. Even today, turkeys are widely raised in backyards in rural Mexico, their esteem maintained in some areas through ritual activities and gift exchanges that echo practices of the past.

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[majingojira]

This made me realize that Jim Butcher actually does what people wanted to happen with Harry twice over. It's mildly present in his "Dresden Files" series, but on full cultural revolution with "Codex Alera."

There, our hero changes the entire status quo of society because he rediscovers and spreads lost technology of the Romans that was abandoned in favor of magic, and gives it to those who have little to no magic in them.

And sets the groundwork for a full upturning of an elitist society in the process.

Though the Zerg invasion also helped.

Also, I must add this, every time, because when 4chan is right, it is so devastatingly right:

[dancing4heaven]

Colored in version of the last page of the “Dresden Codex”

[crodur]

''Humanities are unnecesary and a burden in modern society!'' is a statement that will never be valid, at least not as long as we get takes as moronic as this one.

Losing my mind at this guy. Literally a google search away. They do not even try to hide it. And most people who see this, according to the numbers in the tweet, do agree!

But it gets worse.

Those dumb guys in the primitive americas did not know how to write. Wait, what? What's this?

Wait, what? A mayan king commemorating an HISTORICAL battle by using WRITTEN GLYPHS? B-but they have no sense of time or writting! That must be a fluke!

Mmmh? But...?

A stel portraying a maya queen, with again written symbols mentioning her directly?

''No, those don't count, they're just dumb short phrases, they are surely uncapable of writting down coherent tex-''

Wow, the Dresden Codex, dated from 11th century (mayans were not even at their peak here) writting down their religion, customs, different gods and even complex astronomical movements all-in-one!

Those stone age troglodytes were surely lucky to be able to keep time counts in the thousands of years!

Okay, you're right. Mentioning mayans is cheating because they do not use enough ''actual words'' only drawn ones!

Forget the fact they had a whole ass syllabic system, that experts have been deciphering for decades.

By this rule of thumb, the japanese are all illiterate because they do not actually use words, but abstractions in the form of syllabes. Maya greatest mistake was to do their particles too artistically or something.

The previous tweet implied there was going to be a threat debunking whatever rambling that person was on about, but it stopped there. So... okay.

Regarding the aztecs, that would actually be somewhat accurate. They relied mostly on ideographic writting, but they also combined syllabes. They were still developing their language independently of the mayans. The process was interrupted by the arrival of the spanish crown.

However the writting of the aztecs is stupid and primitive because it doesnt resemble my latin alphabet enough AAAAGH! With such underdeveloped writting they wouldn't be able to write texts, let alone make librar-

Someone else answered, and it's literally the first google result right now, putting this curious image.

I wonder what it's trying to convey.

Solved. It's not a library because... well it's not! It's made of stone and has stupid scribblings stored. It's a nu-library!

How are we going to tell Asurbanipal his assyrian library does not count because it's just not a library, because we need to dunk on the americas?

Forget the books. The real reason they're regressive is because they had no wheel.

They obviously relegated the wheel to toys, because after inventing, polishing it, even using it metaphorically in their intrincate calendars, they decided they didn't know how to use it beyond children toys. It was, again, a skill issue.

Regarding armor and weapons, did you know spanish conquistadores discarded their plate mails and used cotton armor from the natives, far better resistant to rust, and able to disperse slashing and piercing damage with comparable success? Far more comfortable, mobile, and less prone to well, cooking you alive.

How come, also, that Mayas and Aztecs knew each other? They lived in different zones of Mexico with frontiers separated by kilometers? Their trading routes (shared) must have been a stroke of dumb luck.

Apparently if you don't cross the whole ass Pacific/Atlantic Ocean, it does not count. By the way, did anyone in China, India, Africa, Europe or even Australia know about the Native Americans?

Conclussion: If you exclude Mayans, Aztecs, a myriad of other cultures in the Americas, their issolation to the rest of the continents, their set of beliefs, languages, structures, trade routes, traditions, libraries and use of the wheel among some other ''tiny'' advancements... well, you're right. They end being quite primitive.

I guess that's their fault. Maybe they should have conquered us first or some crap.

Those morons and their obscure scribblings.

PD: I excluded this person name in purpose. Do not send harassment to them. This generalized ignorance of America cultures does not radiate from a single person, instead is a shared set of common beliefs. We must combat the biased takes in constructive ways.

[gbfmi1]

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