The Codex Borbonicus is an Aztec codex written by Aztec priests shortly before or after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. It is named after the...
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been considered as being possibly pre-Hispanic: Codex Borbonicus, the Matrícula de Tributos and the Codex Boturini. According to Robertson, no pre-Conquest...
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maguey plant on Page 8 of the Codex Borbonicus, give the sense that she and the plant are one. Furthermore, the Codex Borbonicus displays Mayahuel as holding...
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Mexico. Today the codex remains in the hands of the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico. The Codex Borbonicus closely mirrors the...
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Tozotli festival, which was celebrated annually. Evidence from the Codex Borbonicus suggests that Huey Tozotli was a commemoration of Centeotl, the god...
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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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the future. The best surviving examples of tonalamatl are the Codex Borbonicus and the Codex Borgia. Aztec calendar León-Portilla (1963) 116-20. Elżbieta...
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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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and prognostications are the following, according to the glosses in Codex Borbonicus: One Caiman, Tonacatecuhtli One Jaguar, Ehecatl One Deer, Tepeyollotl...
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marker of Chantico, being seen in the Codex Aubin Tonalamatl, Codex Borbonicus, Codex Telleriano Remensis, and the Codex Rios. It is depicted as a stream of...
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of their sockets. According to the creation recounted in the Florentine Codex, after the Fifth Sun was initially created, it did not move. Ehecatl ("God...
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Tezcatlipoca (section Codex Fejéváry-Mayer)
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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Fifth Sun in the Aztec creation narrative. Motolinía's Memoriales, and the Codex Chimalpopoca relate that the Toltec ruler Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl became...
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dynasties) Codex Selden Codex Vindobonensis Aztec codices Astronomical, calendrical and ritual texts Central Mexican origins: Codex Borbonicus Codex Magliabechiano...
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others of the region. Many surviving Mesoamerican codices, such as Codex Borbonicus, are divinatory calendars, based on the 260-day year, with each page...
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mythology and belief systems, such as the Histoyre du méchique, Florentine Codex, and Codex Bodley, both compiled in the sixteenth century. Tlaltecuhtli is typically...
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Retrieved 20 July 2020. "HUEHUECOYOTL". GodChecker. Media related to Huehuecoyotl at Wikimedia Commons Karl Young, The Continuum of Life in Codex Borbonicus...
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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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closely identified with fire and solar heat. Page 46 of the pre-Columbian Codex Borgia depicts four smoking Xiuhcoatl serpents arranged around a burning...
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the deity in the earth and indicate fertility. Another drawing from the Codex Borgia Huaxtec statue of Tlazōlteōtl from Mexico, 900-1450 CE (British Museum...
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Codex Boxer Codex Codex Bezae Codex Boernerianus Codex Borbonicus Aztec codices#Boturini Codex Carmina Burana Codex Cairensis Codex Calixtinus Codex Claromontanus...
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Tonalamatl, Codex Borbonicus, Codex Borgia, Codex Cospi, Codex Féjérvari-Mayer, Codex Laud and Codex Vaticanus B, the Aubin Manuscript no. 20, Codex Bodley...
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include the Codex Borgia and the Codex Borbonicus (written about the time of conquest). Post-conquest texts include the Florentine Codex, Codex Mendoza and...
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forces that had significance in Aztec mythology.[need quotation to verify] Codex drawings pictured both Quetzalcoatl and Xolotl wearing an ehēcacōzcatl around...
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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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Nahui Ollin symbol with an eye (ixtli) in the center. A solar ray and a precious stone (chalchihuitl) emanate from the eye, Codex Borbonicus (1519–1521)...
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handcasting during the creation of humankind. Similarly, the Aztec Codex Borbonicus depicts the first human couple, Oxomoco and Cipactonal, using maize...
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From the Codex Borbonicus or Códice Borbónico (1530s Spanish calendar and outline of life in the New World) showing Mayahuel, goddess of the maguey, with...
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death and the dead is demonstrated by the symbols he bore. In the Codex Borbonicus Xolotl is pictured with a knife in his mouth, a symbol of death, and...
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