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    The Codex Borgia (The Vatican, Bibl. Vat., Borg.mess.1), also known as Codex Borgianus, Manuscrit de Veletri and Codex Yohualli Ehecatl, is a pre-Columbian...
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    Maguey, Codex Boturini and the Codex Borgia; and a later one, which would comprise Codex Mendoza, Codex Telleriano-Remensis, Codex Osuna, Codex Mexicanus...
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  • these deities are sourced from Codexes (such as the Florentine Codex (Bernardino de Sahagún), the Codex Borgia (Stefano Borgia), and the informants). They...
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    incomplete (part of it is lost). In its content, it is similar to Codex Bodley and Codex Borgia. It is published (with an "Introduction" by C. A. Burland) in...
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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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    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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    in order to curse Hernán Cortés's advances into the Aztec Empire. In Codex Borgia, Chantico is depicted as having a yellow face marked with two red lines...
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    each meal was flung into the hearth. Xiuhtecuhtli is depicted in the Codex Borgia. Xiuhtecuhtli's face is painted with black and red pigment. Xiuhtecuhtli...
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    Heaven and Earth in Ancient Mexico: Astronomy and Seasonal Cycles in the Codex Borgia. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-74373-1. Neumann, Franke J...
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    Ōmetēcuhtli. His consort was Tonacacihuatl. Tonacateuchtli is depicted in the Codex Borgia. The god's name is a compound of two Nahuatl words: tōnacā and tēcuhtli...
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    the Durán Codex, Ramírez Codex, and Codex Borgia. The Codex Mendoza contains multiple depictions of tzompantli. The Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza depicts...
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    simple flint blade, sharpened with some notches on the edge, in the Codex Borgia it appears red. Tecpatl was associated with Northern cardinal point (Mictlan)...
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    As a typical calendar codex tonalamatl dealing with the sacred Aztec calendar – the tonalpohualli – it is placed in the Borgia Group. It is a divinatory...
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    calendrical content. It is a member of the Borgia Group of manuscripts. It is currently housed at the Vatican Library. Codex Vaticanus B is a screenfold book made...
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    lord of the third sun which was destroyed by fire. On page 28 of the Codex Borgia, the Five Tlaloque are pictured watering maize fields. Each Tláloc is...
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    section is unfinished. Aztec calendar Aztec codices Codex Borgia Keber, Eloise Quiñones. "Borbonicus, Codex." In Davíd Carrasco (ed). The Oxford Encyclopedia...
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    Aztec "heartland". Karl Anton Nowotny, nevertheless considered that the Codex Borgia, painted in the area around Cholula and using a Mixtec style, was the...
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    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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    members of the Borgia Group are: The Codex Borgia, after which the group is named. The codex is itself named after Cardinal Stefano Borgia, who owned it...
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    reproduce all creation. Multiple Nahuatl sources, notably the Florentine Codex, name the highest level of heaven Ōmeyōcān or "place of duality" (Sahagún...
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    Codex Borgia page 71 depicts Tonatiuh (left)....
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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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    symbolise the dichotomy of light and darkness.[citation needed] In the Colonial Codex Vaticanus 3738, Mictlantecuhtli is labelled in Spanish as "the lord of the...
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    the deity began acquiring human features, such as the beard (see the Borgia codex illustration below) that he was sometimes depicted with. In the iconography...
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    Tonantzin, but was adopted by Piltzintecuhtli and Xōchiquetzal. In the Codex Borgia, Nanahuatzin is represented as a man emerging from a fire. This was originally...
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    the cob" and teōtl [ˈteoːt͡ɬ] means "deity". According to the Florentine Codex, Centeotl is the son of the earth goddess, Tlazolteotl and solar deity Piltzintecuhtli...
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    was used by the god Tepoztécatl, god of fermentation and fertility. In Codex Borgia he is represented with a bronze axe. The tepoztli, was a weapon used...
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    deity in the earth and indicate fertility. Another drawing from the Codex Borgia Huaxtec statue of Tlazolteotl from Mexico, 900-1450 CE (British Museum...
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    fourth trecena Xochitl ("flower" in Nahuatl). Stories derived from the Codex Telleriano-Remensis characterized Huehuecóyotl as a benign prankster, whose...
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    association with fire in two codices of the Borgia Group from central Mexico during the Aztec period (Codex Borgia and Codex Vaticanus B). The mirrors are placed...
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