animal
Monkey
Monkey as an animal people have named and used. Play, mimic, clever hands — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Nahua tradition
Monkey appears in Nahua tradition.
Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records ozomatli in Book 11 four-footed animals — named monkey and day-sign animal speech. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
appears in · sourced · culturally specific
Egyptian religion
Monkey appears in Egyptian religion.
Herodotus notes monkeys among African fauna neighbors in the traveler ethnography. A named monkey in that speech, not ape as the keep-apart primate and not Florentine monkey alone.
from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE
appears in · sourced · documented
sources
- Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).
- Histories · Herodotus
Herodotus, Histories.