The Maya Codex of Mexico (MCM) is a Maya screenfold codex manuscript of a pre-Columbian type. Long known as the Grolier Codex or Sáenz Codex, in 2018 it...
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Maya codices (sg.: codex) are folding books written by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark paper. The...
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The Madrid Codex (also known as the Tro-Cortesianus Codex or the Troano Codex) is one of four surviving pre-Columbian Maya books dating to the Postclassic...
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the Maya Codex of Mexico, previously known as the Grolier Codex, is, in fact, older by about a century. The codex was rediscovered in the city of Dresden...
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hieroglyphic evidence from Seibal in the Maya area and the heavily Toltec-influenced Maya Codex of Mexico, the oldest Venus almanac in Mesoamerica, suggest...
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as the Madrid Codex, the Dresden Codex, the Paris Codex and the Maya Codex of Mexico (previously known as the Grolier Codex, which was of disputed authenticity...
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The Paris Codex (also known as the Codex Peresianus and Codex Pérez) is one of three surviving generally accepted pre-Columbian Maya books dating to the...
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human sacrifice is described in a number of late Maya and early Spanish colonial texts, including the Madrid Codex, the Kʼicheʼ epic Popol Vuh, the Kʼicheʼ...
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Bodley, Codex Colombino, Codex Nutall, Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I, Codex Dresden, Codex Madrid, the Paris Codex, and the Maya Codex of Mexico. Native...
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Maya mythology or Mayan mythology is part of Mesoamerican mythology and comprises all of the Maya tales in which personified forces of nature, deities...
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already among the Classic Maya, images of the deity began acquiring human features, such as the beard (see the Borgia codex illustration below) that he...
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the codex format), Maya codices and other pre-Columbian manuscripts. Library practices have led to many European manuscripts having "codex" as part of their...
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helped to authenticate the document, now known as Codex Maya of Mexico. Recent research also suggests Maya blue may have played an important role in human...
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Int. Cong. Of Amer., Mexico, 1939 (Mexico) I: pp. 401–05. Grofe, Michael John 2007 The Serpent Series: Precession in the Maya Dresden Codex p. vii Bricker...
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Venus (redirect from Structure of Venus)
of Venus were important to their calendar and were described in some of their books, such as the Maya Codex of Mexico and Dresden Codex. The flag of Chile...
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sing. codex) are Mesoamerican manuscripts made by the pre-Columbian Aztec, and their Nahuatl-speaking descendants during the colonial period in Mexico. Most...
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times: the three surviving Maya hieroglyphic books (the Maya codices of Dresden, Madrid and Paris) plus the Maya-Toltec Grolier Codex, all dating from the Postclassic...
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in the Guatemalan highlands, Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico. The essentials of the Maya calendar are based upon a system which had been in common...
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Tezcatlipoca (section Codex Fejéváry-Mayer)
depiction in texts such as the Codex Borgia and Codex Fejéváry-Mayer, where Tezcatlipoca is surrounded by day signs, implying a sort of mastery over them. A talisman...
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Hales added an inventory and classification of Maya vases painted in codex style, thereby revealing even more of a hitherto barely known spiritual world....
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The Codex Mendoza is an Aztec codex, believed to have been created around the year 1541. It contains a history of both the Aztec rulers and their conquests...
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the British Museum. It is one of about 16 manuscripts from Mexico that are entirely pre-Columbian in origin. The codex derives its name from Zelia Nuttall...
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the town of Hocabá, as indicated by the Hocabá dictionary and is not employed elsewhere in the region or in Mexico, by either Spanish or Maya speakers...
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Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (category Scholars of the Aztecs)
interpretations of the content of the Troano codex in his work Manuscrit Troano, études sur le système graphique et la langue des Mayas. He proposed some...
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Ixchel (category Maya goddesses)
goddess of midwifery, Toci. Ixchel was already known to the Classical Maya. As Taube has demonstrated, she corresponds to Goddess O of the Dresden Codex, an...
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ISSN 2041-9015. Sahagun, Fray Bernardino De. Florentine Codex (Translated ed.). Mexico. p. 10. "God of the Month: Tláloc" (PDF). Aztecs at Mexicolor. Mexicolore...
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Ixtab (category Maya goddesses)
the time of the Spanish conquest of Yucatán (1527–1546), Ix Tab or Ixtab ([iʃˈtaɓ]; "Rope Woman", "Hangwoman") was the indigenous Maya goddess of suicide...
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Mesoamerican Long Count calendar (redirect from Maya Long Count Calendar)
Numbers' of the Dresden Maya Codex". Anthropos (St. Gabriel Mödling bei Wien). 28: 1–7. The Long Count Position of the Serpent Number Dates. Vol. I. Mexico: Proc...
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representations found on Maya ceramics until about 900 AD and in the Dresden Codex some centuries later. Clearly recognizable are the figures of Hunahpu, Xbalanque...
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Mesoamerican chronology (redirect from Maya Classic Period)
Zapotec civilization arose in the Valley of Oaxaca, the Teotihuacan civilization arose in the Valley of Mexico. The Maya civilization began to develop in the...
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