The Lord Eight Deer Saga

FAIN: RQ-50856-14

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Chicago, IL 60612-4305)
John Monaghan (Project Director: January 2014 to May 2018)

Preparation for publication of the saga of Eight Deer, an 11th century king in southern Mexico. (24 months)

This project will organize and prepare for publication the texts that tell the story of an eleventh century hero of the Mixtex people of Southern Mexico. It will provide a scholarly introduction to Mixtec writing, literature, poetics and history, and produce a reading of the saga in English. The project will also produce an on-line work book that interested readers can use to teach themselves to read the original Mixtec texts.