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The Great Mexican Library
The ultimate open-source digital archive for the cultures, sciences, arts, and territories of Mexico. Built on advanced library science and artificial intelligence, serving every reader, human or machine.
Active Collections & Regions
2 · The Mexican Bioregion, land and sea
The Great Mexican Map
From the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, and from California and Texas to Guatemala and El Salvador: explore the 68 pueblos originarios, ancient Mesoamerican cities, nature reserves, and eleven cultural routes.
NEO MAP 2.0 · Librarian Joséf Sánchez Coach · Colegio de Bibliotecología, UNAM. Locations are approximate centers of main territories.
3 · The heart of the library
68 pueblos, 68 languages, one Mexico
The Ultimate Archive of Native Mexican Heritage
Mexico is plural from its root. Dive into the most comprehensive digital repository dedicated to the indigenous cultures of Mexico. From the Nahua and Maya to the Zapotec, Mixtec, and beyond, this open-source library explores the profound ancestral wisdom, native languages, traditional gastronomy, and living heritage of 68 unique pueblos originarios. Connect with the vibrant, living legacy that shapes the diverse biocultural landscape of modern Mexico.
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Source: INALI catalog of national languages (2008) and INEGI. Self-names in their own languages. Also recognized by the Constitution: the pueblo afromexicano of the Costa Chica and other regions.
4 · 20 Signs & 13 Numbers
The 20 Day Signs
Each day-sign has a patron force and faces one of the four directions, turning East, North, West and South in an endless cycle, as painted in the Codex Borgia.
5 · Ancient Books and Evidence
The Mexican Codices
Written in beautiful pictographic imagery on deerskin, amate paper, and European paper, the codices hold the ancient calendars, gods, migrations, tributes, and genealogies of Mesoamerica. Most are currently kept far from Mexico; the library orders them so every reader can easily find them.
Codex Borgia
The great book of the Tonalpohualli and the gods of the days.
Bodleian Library, OxfordCodex Mendoza
The founding of Tenochtitlan, its tributes and daily life.
Biblioteca Laurenziana, FlorenceFlorentine Codex
The encyclopedia in Nahuatl and Spanish compiled by Sahagún and Nahua scholars.
Museo Nacional de AntropologíaTira de la Peregrinación
The Mexica migration from Aztlan, also called Codex Boturini.
British Museum, LondonCodex Zouche-Nuttall
Mixtec history and the epic deeds of Lord Eight Deer Jaguar Claw.
Assemblée nationale, ParisCodex Borbonicus
The Tonalpohualli and the festivals of the solar year.
6 · Calendar and Time
Two wheels, one sun
The peoples of central Mexico counted time with two interlocking wheels, the same brilliant celestial logic shared across Mesoamerica.
Tonalpohualli
The count of days and destinies: 20 day-signs × 13 numbers. The sacred count of your Tonalli.
365 daysXiuhpohualli
The solar year: 18 veintenas of 20 days, each with its festival, plus the 5 nemontemi resting days.
52 yearsXiuhmolpilli
The binding of the years, renewed with the magnificent New Fire ceremony on the Hill of the Star.
Museo Nacional de AntropologíaThe Sun Stone
The great Mexica monolith with the 20 day-signs carved eternally around the face of the Fifth Sun, Nahui Ollin.
Coming Soon
Collections in Preparation
The Mexican Library is constantly expanding. The following collections are being actively prepared and documented alongside the 68 peoples and their territories.
Science & Mathematics
Counting in twenties, the zero, astronomy, and herbal medicine recorded in the Libellus de Medicinalibus.
Art & Crafts
Backstrap-loom textiles, barro negro, Talavera, lacquer, amate paper, and Wixárika beadwork.
Music & Instruments
Huéhuetl drums, clay flutes, the volador’s flute, jaranas, harps, marimbas, and the mariachi.
Gastronomy
The milpa, nixtamal, mole, tamales, chocolate, vanilla, and the regional kitchens of each people.
Festivities
The Day of the Dead, the Guelaguetza, the Voladores, carnivals, and New Fire ceremonies.
Colors & Symbols
Cochineal red, purple snail, indigo and Maya blue; the eagle, the stepped fret, the flower, and the deer.
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i About the Mexican Library
The Mexican Library (mexicanlibrary.org) is a library of NEO Library, the new library for the new civilization. It orders the science and culture of Mexico, its peoples, languages, calendars, codices and territory, and opens them to every reader.
Librarian Joséf Sánchez Coach (UNAM), author of NEO Library, prepares every reading.
josef.sesy.ai ↗ The sister libraryThe Mayan Library: the Maya world, its calendar and its majestic forest.
mayanlibrary.org ↗ The methodBuilt on rigorous library science from the thesis of Sánchez González, José F. (2014), UNAM.
Read the thesis ↗ The technologyBuilt and proudly hosted with SESY.AI, Semantic Systems & AI, on our own infrastructure.
sesy.ai ↗Keep the library free
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Free readings, open maps and an open archive are sustained entirely by readers. Every contribution keeps this knowledge free for everyone.
Contributions go to Joséf Sánchez, individual (persona física) registered in Mexico; they are not tax-deductible.
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