/lit/ - Literature

>>16378532
How obscure/expensive are you willing to go? You cool with doing stuff with images too rather then just text? Do you have contacts or ways to get access to stuff that the average person doesn't?

I collect recreations of Mesoamerican (Aztec, Maya, etc) architecture, clothing, cityscapes, etc; as well as collaborate with some people who run book drives for them. So over time I've bought a fair amount of books to scan for those projects but at times the books I need for stuff are too expensive or too rare to get regular access to.

To give some examples; "Images Take Flight: Feather Art in Mexico and Europe" is a book on feather mosiac art made by Aztec artists for the colional Spanish Goverment and has high res images of many such art pieces, but due to reasons I don't entirely understand, went out of print and now goes for over 600$ as of a year or so ago. Another would be "Urbanization at Teotihuacan, Mexico. Volume One: The Teotihuacan Map". which is a book documenting the mapping projects at Teotihuacan, a large (150,000 people, 37 square kilometer) metropolis in Central Mexico from around 500AD. This is far more reasonably priced, with a few on amazon for around 100$, but there's both a "part 1" (the book) and a "part 2" (the fold out maps) and it's unclear who selling it has one or the other or both, when I need both. The final example, and I'd give up a foot for this, is Scott and Stuart Gentling (who make gorgous paintings of Aztec cityscapes) Sketchbook, titled "The Reed One Year", which was only made in extremely limited quanitites (100 english, 100 spanish) and sold for $7500.

Now, i'm not asking you to go ahead and get me any of those (though if you could that'd be amazing, bnut I wouldn't want you to jump on it yet), so much as I am giving you examples of the sort of niche subjects and rarities and prices I'm looking for occasionally.

I'm also curious what your workflow is for scanning, in terms of resolution, color correction, etc, if you are scanning books with images to begin with and not just text ones (which I still may benefit from depending on how rare you are willing to go)

Also, if you are interested in what I have so far already scanned, own, etc, please let me know. I'm happy to share. Pic related for example is a scan from a museum catalog on the Gentling's I was able to get, for example. (the actual scans are over 6000 pixels tall and over 100mb per image, this is considerably downscaled and compressed)

Anyways, in the event the thread 404's and I can't get in touch with you again, you can reach me at Saintseiyasource@gmail.com

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If you actually read that Desuarchive link it talks a bunch about sacrifice practices, and, as mentioned, how it played into their metaphysical and ethical philsophy. See also some of my posts in this thread https://boards.fireden.net/v/thread/460067902/ and there was another thread I can't find right now I talked aboutit a lot in.

The desuarchive link has literally 40,000 characters of me talking about it, and the fireden link has around 20,000 characters of stuff on it. Read it, educate yourself. Or hell if I have time later today I'll do a revised combination of the two and that other thread I can't find and I'll dump it here.

Hell. read "Allure of nezahualcoyotl" and " Tlacaelel remembered". Both are books on specific aztec politicans, Nezahualcoyotl being the most famous king of the second most important Aztec city, and was a renowned intellectual, poet, patron of the arts and hydrengineer who designed a variety of dike, aquaduct, and other water mangement systems for both his city and the aztec captial, and I already talked about Tlacaelel.

>Savages
Not even the Spanish thought they were savages. If you actually read accounts from Conquistadors and Friars you would see that, while they found their religion detestable, they were very impreseed with their art, cities, and govermental systems, and essentially saw them as formal, respectable states, which is why you have Aztec and Spanish nobility freeily marrying, the Aztec imperial royal family holding titles as dukes to this day, etc.

For instance

Cortes here's describing a city only a fraction the size of the Aztec captial:
>The city is indeed so great and marvellous that though I abstain from describing many things... the little.. I.. recount is... incredible. It is much larger than Granada and much better fortified. Its houses are as fine and its inhabitants far more numerous than those of Granada when that... was captured. Its provisions and food are likewise very superior... There are gold, silver and precious stones, and jewellers' shops selling other ornaments made of feathers, as well arranged as in any market in the world. There is earthenware of many kinds and excellent quality, as fine as any in Spain. Wood, charcoal, medicinal and sweet smelling herbs are sold in large quantities. There are booths for washing your hair and barbers to shave you: there are also public baths. Finally, good order and an efficient police system are maintained among them, and they behave as people of sense and reason.

Durian:
>lose the bad and false opinion that these Aztec people were barbarian and uncivilized, as they have been called. Because, although they showed blindness and diabolic self-deception in their rites and idolatries, in matters of government and good order, submission and reverence, majesty and authority, courage and fortitude, I have found no one to surpass them.

etc. I can go on, and will if I have time later.

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