• Thumbnail for Codex Borgia
    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...
    29 KB (3,284 words) - 10:04, 7 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Codex Laud
    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...
    3 KB (299 words) - 19:51, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aztec codex
    Maguey, Codex Boturini and the Codex Borgia; and a later one, which would comprise Codex Mendoza, Codex Telleriano-Remensis, Codex Osuna, Codex Mexicanus...
    42 KB (5,231 words) - 05:14, 8 November 2024
  • these deities are sourced from Codexes (such as the Florentine Codex (Bernardino de Sahagún), the Codex Borgia (Stefano Borgia), and the informants). They...
    21 KB (2,286 words) - 17:51, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tezcatlipoca
    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...
    33 KB (4,007 words) - 19:26, 13 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chantico
    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...
    11 KB (1,381 words) - 10:43, 13 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Chalchiuhtlicue
    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...
    18 KB (2,025 words) - 15:40, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Xolotl
    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...
    17 KB (1,804 words) - 02:59, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Xiuhtecuhtli
    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...
    19 KB (2,163 words) - 01:30, 9 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tōnacātēcuhtli
    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...
    6 KB (540 words) - 01:10, 28 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Codex Cospi
    The Codex Cospi (or Codex Bologna) is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican pictorial manuscript, included in the Borgia Group. It is currently located in the...
    4 KB (498 words) - 10:07, 7 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Tecpatl
    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)...
    17 KB (2,179 words) - 22:47, 24 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Codex Fejérváry-Mayer
    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...
    4 KB (402 words) - 11:19, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Codex Vaticanus B
    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...
    7 KB (936 words) - 13:16, 7 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Tzompantli
    the Durán Codex, Ramírez Codex, and Codex Borgia. The Codex Mendoza contains multiple depictions of tzompantli. The Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza depicts...
    25 KB (2,934 words) - 14:45, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mesoamerican Codices
    Tonalamatl, Codex Borbonicus, Codex Borgia, Codex Cospi, Codex Féjérvari-Mayer, Codex Laud and Codex Vaticanus B, the Aubin Manuscript no. 20, Codex Bodley...
    23 KB (2,753 words) - 04:07, 11 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Aztecs
    Aztec "heartland". Karl Anton Nowotny, nevertheless considered that the Codex Borgia, painted in the area around Cholula and using a Mixtec style, was the...
    169 KB (21,050 words) - 02:18, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Codex Borbonicus
    section is unfinished. Aztec calendar Aztec codices Codex Borgia Keber, Eloise Quiñones. "Borbonicus, Codex." In Davíd Carrasco (ed). The Oxford Encyclopedia...
    6 KB (673 words) - 15:53, 8 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tláloc
    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...
    42 KB (5,344 words) - 17:45, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mictlāntēcutli
    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...
    13 KB (1,561 words) - 22:48, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tlazōlteōtl
    deity in the earth and indicate fertility. Another drawing from the Codex Borgia Huaxtec statue of Tlazolteotl from Mexico, 900-1450 CE (British Museum...
    10 KB (1,040 words) - 10:36, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tonalamatl
    future. The best surviving examples of tonalamatl are the Codex Borbonicus and the Codex Borgia. Aztec calendar León-Portilla (1963) 116-20. Elżbieta.,...
    2 KB (213 words) - 21:01, 20 October 2021
  • Thumbnail for Tlaximaltepoztli
    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...
    9 KB (1,171 words) - 11:40, 12 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ōmeteōtl
    reproduce all creation. Multiple Nahuatl sources, notably the Florentine Codex, name the highest level of heaven Ōmeyōcān or "place of duality" (Sahagún...
    12 KB (1,272 words) - 08:00, 25 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tōnatiuh
    Codex Borgia page 71 depicts Tonatiuh (left)....
    14 KB (1,750 words) - 03:25, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nanahuatzin
    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...
    7 KB (1,037 words) - 03:36, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mirrors in Mesoamerican culture
    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...
    61 KB (8,062 words) - 16:52, 6 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mayahuel
    modern United States and Mexico. The depictions of Mayahuel in the Codex Borgia and the Codex Borbonicus show the deity perched upon a maguey plant. The deity's...
    7 KB (740 words) - 01:03, 28 October 2024
  • Black Tezcatlipoca (bottom), god of providence in the Codex Borgia....
    13 KB (1,730 words) - 23:56, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Centeōtl
    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...
    9 KB (1,089 words) - 19:57, 18 October 2024