• [citation needed] Also known as the Durán Codex, The History of the Indies of New Spain was completed in about 1581. Durán also wrote Book of the Gods and...
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    with scholarly English translations are Codex Mendoza, the Florentine Codex, and the works by Diego Durán. Codex Mendoza is a mixed pictorial, alphabetic...
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  • Colombino Codex Cospi Codex Cozcatzin Codex Dresden Codex Durán Codex Fejérváry-Mayer Codex Florentine Codex Huamantla Códice de Huichapan Codex Huexotzinco Humboldt...
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    Ramírez Codex (Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia, MNA 35-100), not to be confused with the Tovar Codex, is a post-conquest codex from the...
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    century Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún wrote in his Florentine Codex that Indians traveled to Tepeyac to worship Tonantzin. In her book Goddesses...
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    This quauholōlli is represented in the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, Codex Duran and the Florentine codex. The warriors that wield it in these depictions, always have...
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    perched on a nopal cactus with a snake in its beak. This image appears in Codex Mendoza, one early post-conquest manuscript of many Aztec codices or pictorial...
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    The aztec Tzompantli, taken from the 16th C. Aztec manuscript, Codex Duran...
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    cannibalized. Fray Diego Durán confirms this, stating that skulls were delivered to temples after "the flesh had been eaten". Durán notes that the tzompantli...
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    Diego Durán Pedro Cieza de Leon Mexico portal Mesoamerica portal Indigenous peoples of the Americas portal Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General...
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    Preparations before the Fall of Tenochtitlan, Codex Durán....
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    New Spain by Dominican friar Diego Durán references both Spanish and indigenous accounts of Moctezuma II's death. Durán notes that Spanish historians and...
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    this was certainly an important part of most Aztec warfare. Friar Diego Durán and the chronicles based on the Crónica X states that the Xochiyaoyotl was...
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    2018-10-10. "FAMSI - Codex Tonalamatl Aubin (Loubat 1901)". www.famsi.org. Retrieved 2018-10-10. "Codex Borgia". Digital Vatican Library. Durán, Diego. Book of...
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    historical part are noticeably close not only to the Ramírez Codex, but also to the work of Diego Durán, and Fernando Alvarado Tezozomoc. This group of works...
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    hummingbird". The hummingbird was spiritually important in Aztec culture. Diego Durán describes what appears to be the hummingbird hibernating in a tree, somewhat...
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    "Codex Madrid I". Universal Leonardo. University of the Arts, London. Archived from the original on 15 October 2006. Retrieved 3 November 2012. "Codex...
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    rebellion failed, resulting in the death of Moquihuix who is pictured in the Codex Mendoza tumbling down the Great Temple of Tlatelolca. As a result of the...
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    Pre-Columbian Codex Borgia (plates 11 and 65), the 16th century Codex Borbonicus (page 5), the 16th century Codex Ríos (page 17), and the Florentine Codex (plate...
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    and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopoca. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-1886-9. Durán, Diego; Ramírez, José Fernando;...
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    New Spain by Diego Durán, translated, annoted and with introduction by Doris Heyden The Book of the Gods and Rites, by Diego Duran, translated and edited...
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    calendar as a whole is suggested by his depiction in texts such as the Codex Borgia and Codex Fejéváry-Mayer, where Tezcatlipoca is surrounded by day signs, implying...
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    hisses" was mistranslated as "the snake is torn". Based on this, Father Diego Durán reinterpreted the legend so that the eagle represents all that is good and...
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  • version was proposed by professor Rafael Tena (INAH), based on the studies of Durán, Sahagún and Alfonso Caso (UNAM). His correlation confirms that the first...
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    The Aubin Codex is an 81-leaf Aztec codex written in alphabetic Nahuatl on paper from Europe. Its textual and pictorial contents represent the history...
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    scribes. The Codex Borbonicus is considered by some to be the only extant Aztec codex produced before the conquest – it is a calendric codex describing...
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    held a central place in Mesoamerican cultures. The 16th-century Florentine Codex by Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún reports that in one of the creation...
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  • codices are preserved, most notably the Codex Mendoza, the Florentine Codex, and the works by Diego Durán. Codex Mendoza (around 1541) is a mixed pictorial...
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  • Culhuacán — mother of tlatoani of Tenochtitlan, named also Acamapichtli. Diego Durán, Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc and Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl mentioned...
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    eighteen months. The days of the year were counted twenty by twenty. — Diego Durán Xiuhpōhualli is the Aztec year (xihuitl) count (pōhualli). One year consists...
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