Coixtlahuaca, San Juan Bautista Yodzo Coo coa-tl: snake ixtlahua-tl: plain -can: at some place, point "Plain of the Snakes" yodzo: plain coo: snake "Plain of the Snake" Mary Elizabeth Smith, Picture Writing in Ancient Southern Mexico: Mixtec Place Signs and Maps, Civilization of the American Indian Series 124 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973) 65-66. Bruce Byland and John Pohl, In the Realm of Eight Deer: The Archaeology of the Mixtec Codices (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994) 144-147. Codex Mendoza, folio 43/r.