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Mesoamerican screenfolds: annals and dream booksAll the surviving screenfold books fall into two categories - annals and dream books. The annals – xiuhtlapoualli – tell stories that may stretch over many centuries, often promoting the interests of particular families or polities (organised societies). The dream books – temicamatl – are a condensed or ritualised version of reality which deal with fundamental human experiences. Fejérváry-Mayer is a dream book. The scribes who wrote these books – tlacuilo in Nahuatl or Aztec – were trained in special schools. In this section
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