Lord 1 Deer

Member of the paired 1 Deer creators in the Mixtec codex tradition. A separate colonial account in García describes an Apoala creator couple named Deer; the correspondence between these portrayals is retained as an interpretation, not silently assumed.

Names and tradition associations

• Deer creator in García (separate account) Mixtec · resolvedGregorio Garcia, Origen de los indios, V.iv, account of the Apoala creator pair and their two sons, excerpted in Phillips 1883 note 17 (primary)

Variant accounts

• codex-and-colonial-boundaryThe colonial account’s two named sons and the codex’s flint-born 9 Wind are not automatically one genealogy. The original source-name equivalences require separate verification.Gregorio Garcia, Origen de los indios, V.iv, account of the Apoala creator pair and their two sons, excerpted in Phillips 1883 note 17 (primary)
• source review correctionThe reviewed reading supports the calendar name 1 Deer. Unverified modern indigenous name strings are retained only in correction history pending a reliable linguistic witness.Christopher Powell, The Creation and Ordering of the Mixtec World, pp. 2–3, interpreting Vindobonensis 49–37 (secondary)
• source review correctionDistinguish the creator couple from the later tree-born lineage founders; the earlier lifecycle merged these episodes.Christopher Powell, The Creation and Ordering of the Mixtec World, pp. 2–3, interpreting Vindobonensis 49–37 (secondary); John Pohl, Ancient Books: Mixtec Group Codices, discussion of Vindobonensis obverse 52–23 (secondary)

Domains

• creation

Powers

• Begets the gods at the Place of Heaven

Epithets

• Puma Serpent (1 Deer) latin · 1 Deer (male) · codexLord 1 Deer; with Lady 1 Deer, the primordial creator-couple from whom gods and lineages springCodex Vienna (Vindobonensis); Codex Nuttall (primary)
• Iya Koo Ñuhu Mixtec · Uno Venado-Serpiente Puma · cosmogonicOne Deer, Puma SerpentCodex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I (Yuta Tnoho), obverse (primary)

Relations

• spouse: Lady 1 DeerCodex Vindobonensis (primary)
• interpretatio: OmeteotlLord 1 Deer with Lady 1 Deer is the primordial dual creator-couple of the Apoala emergence, the Mixtec expression of the male-female creator principle the Aztecs personified as Ometeotl.Alfonso Caso, Reyes y reinos de la Mixteca (1977-79); Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I; Nicholson (1971) (secondary)

Sources

• existence: Codex Vindobonensis (Yuta Tnoho), obverse pp. 51-32 (primary); Friar Antonio de los Reyes, Arte en lengua Mixteca (1593) — preface treating the Apoala origin (primary); Friar Francisco de Burgoa, Geográfica Descripción (1674) Bk. II Ch. 71-74 (primary)
• Member of the paired 1 Deer creators in the Mixtec codex tradition. A separate colonial account in García describes an Apoala creator couple named Deer; the correspondence between these portrayals is retained as an interpretation, not silently assumed.: Christopher Powell, The Creation and Ordering of the Mixtec World, pp. 2–3, interpreting Vindobonensis 49–37 (secondary); Gregorio Garcia, Origen de los indios, V.iv, account of the Apoala creator pair and their two sons, excerpted in Phillips 1883 note 17 (primary)