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Much of Zapotec social life is strongly segregated by sex. Men and women often work separately, coming together to eat in the morning and evening, and during ritual occasions, they remain separate except when dancing." [10] The purity of women is highly valued and their sexual and social autonomy can be hindered as a result. "Most women in the ...
Zapotec is a tone language, which means that the meaning of a word is often determined by voice pitch (tonemes), essential for understanding the meaning of different words. The Zapotec languages features up to 4 distinct tonemes: high, low, rising and falling. [13]
Cocijo (Zapotec: Cocijo; [1] [2] occasionally spelt Cociyo, otherwise known as Guziu in the Zapotec language) is a lightning deity of the pre-Columbian Zapotec civilization of southern Mexico. He has attributes characteristic of similar Mesoamerican deities associated with rain, thunder and lightning, such as Tlaloc of central Mexico, and Chaac ...
Zapotec peoples, contemporary indigenous peoples of Mexico Zapotecan languages , a group of related Oto-Manguean languages (including Zapotec languages), of central Mesoamerica Zapotec language (Jalisco) , an extinct language from Jalisco state in Mexico, unrelated (despite its name) to the group of Zapotec languages.
Guxi Chikoeza, Kosi'ioeza (Zapotec: Guxi Chikoeza or Kosi'ioeza) (c. 1450–1529) was a Coquitao (King in Zapotec) of Zaachila (the kingdom not to be confused with the homonymous city), its name in Zapotec means "Storm of obsidian knives" or "time of obsidian knives", was named by Aztecs as Huizquiauitl.
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The Zapotec civilization (700 BCE − 1521 CE) — an indigenous pre-Columbian civilization that flourished in the Oaxaca Valley of Mesoamerica. Zapotec archaeological sites are in present-day Oaxaca state of southwestern México.
Cosijopii I. Cosijopii I also Cosiiopii I (December 30, 1502–1563) [1] was the last sovereign of the Kingdom of Zaachila, that was named by the Aztecs as Teotzapotlan.Such kingdom was located in the west side of the current Mexican state of Oaxaca and during the last period reached the Pacific coast of the current Chiapas and Guatemala, the Zaachila Kingdom fell after the Spanish colonization.