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"Judgment comes
from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment". Simon Bolivar
Literature
and Languages Ancient Meso-America
"The
traditions of
indigenous Mesoamerican literature extend back to the
oldest-attested forms of early
writing in the
Mesoamerican region, which date from around the mid-1st
millennium BCE. Many of the
pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica are known to have
been
literate societies, who produced a number of
Mesoamerican writing systems of varying degrees of
complexity and completeness. Mesoamerican writing systems
arose independently from other
writing systems in the world, and their development
represents one of the very few such origins in the
history of writing. The literature and texts created by
indigenous Mesoamericans are the earliest-known from
the Americas for primarily two reasons: Firstly the fact
that the native populations of Mesoamerica were the first to
enter into intensive contact with Europeans, assuring that
many samples of Mesoamerican literature have been documented
in surviving and intelligible forms. Secondly, the long
tradition of Mesoamerican writing which undoubtedly
contributed to the native Mesoamericans readily embracing the
Latin alphabet of the Spaniards and creating many literary
works written in it during the first centuries after the
Spanish conquest of Mexico. This article summarizes
current knowledge about indigenous Mesoamerican literatures in
its broadest sense and describe it categorized by its literary
contents and social functions."Source:
Wikipedia
