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    The Codex Magliabechiano is a pictorial Aztec codex created during the mid-16th century, in the early Spanish colonial period. It is representative of...
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    views of the manuscript are available online. Codex Laud, part of the Borgia Group. Codex Magliabechiano was created during the mid-16th century, in the...
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    The Codex Tudela is a 16th-century pictorial Aztec codex. It is based on the same prototype as the Codex Magliabechiano, the Codex Ixtlilxochitl, and other...
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    associations. The codex is a component of the Magliabechiano Group, a set of three codices pertaining to religion and ritual that also includes the Codex Magliabechiano...
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    as depicted in the Codex Magliabechiano (on page 58 recto). The accompanying description of Mayahuel in the Codex Magliabechiano (on page 57 verso)....
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    people of New Mexico. Pozole was mentioned in the 16th century Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagún. Since maize was a sacred plant for the Aztecs...
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    Telleriano Remensis, Codex Ixtlilxochitl, Codex Tudela, Codex Magliabechiano, Codex Mendoza, the Matrícula de Tributos, Codex Badianus, Relación de Michoacan....
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    the god for which copal incense was burned four times a day. The Codex Magliabechiano contains a passage relating Tezcatlipoca with the temascal, or sweatbath...
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    compiled over the same period. It is not to be confused with the Aztec Codex Magliabechiano in the same library. While the opening section is devoted to artists...
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    cannibalization of the sacrificial victims, depicted for example in Codex Magliabechiano. Harner claimed that very high population pressure and an emphasis...
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    v9i0.115-122. ISSN 2365-2225. The glyphs shown are taken from the Codex Magliabechiano Discussion of origin of the 260-day cycle Archived 2008-05-30 at...
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    chased them through the sky. Human sacrifice as shown in the Codex Magliabechiano Codex Tudela. The most important and powerful structure in Tenochtitlan...
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    manner'. His name glyph, shown in the upper left corner of the image from the Codex Mendoza below, was composed of a diadem (xiuhuitzolli) on straight hair...
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    as a simple flint blade, sharpened with some notches on the edge, in the Codex Borgia it appears red. Tecpatl was associated with Northern cardinal point...
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    suit and the cone-shaped cap appearance are the most common within the Codex Mendoza. A four captive warrior, which would be an eagle or jaguar warrior...
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    Depiction of a Tzitzimitl from the Codex Magliabechiano....
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    automatically wins all the goods bet by both parties. According to the Magliabechiano codex, the god of games, Macuilxochitl, was considered to be participating...
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    most prominent codices include the Ríos, Tudela, Telleriano-Remensis, Magliabechiano, and Sahagún's Florentine. A contrast is offered in the few Aztec statues...
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    A scene depicting ritualistic Aztec cannibalism being practiced in the Codex Magliabechiano, folio 73r....
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    involvement with psychoactive substances in the Aztec lifestyle. The Florentine codex contains multiple references to the use of psychoactive plants among the...
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  • The Mesoamerican deity Quetzalcoatl as depicted in the Codex Magliabechiano...
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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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    Post-conquest texts include the Florentine Codex, Codex Mendoza and the Codex Magliabechiano, including others. Philosophy portal Tlacaelel Government of the...
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    tlālli īyōlloh, pronounced [ˌtɬáː.lːi iːˈjóː.lːoʔ] Sections of the Codex Magliabechiano indicate that the god Tezcatlipoca served as tutelary god for temazcalli...
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    the day signs were drawn or carved. Those here were taken from the Codex Magliabechiano. Wind and Rain are represented by images of their associated gods...
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    Aztec jaguar warrior, from the Codex Magliabechiano...
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    which were elemental forces that had significance in Aztec mythology. Codex drawings pictured both Quetzalcoatl and Xolotl wearing an ehēcacōzcatl around...
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    mother who uses the sun as a shield Chicomecōātl, as depicted in Codex Magliabechiano Relief with Maize Goddess (Chicomecóatl), Stone, Aztec. Maize Deity...
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    two are the MS Ottobonario 22012 in the Vatican Library, and the Codex Magliabechiano, Miscellanea XIII, 89 (3) at the Library of Florence The Florentine...
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    game being watched by Macuilxochitl as depicted on page 048 of the Codex Magliabechiano The Mansion of Happiness (1843) Mesopotamia A version of the 4,600-year-old...
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