The Mixtec codices record that Lord Eight Deer killed his wife's father to take Tilantongo, and that the boy he spared later killed him and married his daughter

The Mixtec painted books are genealogies and histories of royal houses, and they tell the same events from rival sides. Read by modern scholars, they record that Eight Deer Jaguar Claw was born in 1063, the son of a high priest of Tilantongo. The first Tilantongo dynasty ended with Lord Two Rain, shown killing himself. Eight Deer became ruler of Tututepec in 1084 and of Tilantongo in 1097. In 1101 he conquered the kingdom called Red and White Bundle, killing its ruler Eleven Wind, the father of the woman he then married. He had his two half-nephews, Lords Ten Dog and Six House, executed. He spared a boy, Four Wind, son of his rival Lady Six Monkey of Jaltepec. Codex Selden tells Six Monkey's life and leaves out that Eight Deer caused her death. Eight Deer died in 1115. One reading says Four Wind led an alliance that captured and sacrificed him; another says Four Wind had him killed on a hunting trip. Codex Bodley shows his murder. Four Wind then married Eight Deer's daughter, and his descendants ruled. The painted books survive in European libraries and museums.