ICONOGRAFÍA DE DIOSES CELESTES EN CÓDICES DEL ALTIPLANO MEXICANO
ICONOGRAPHY OF CELESTIAL GODS IN MEXICAN CODICES OF CENTRAL HIGHLANDS
Author(s): Ofelia Márquez Huitzil
Subject(s): Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Mesoamerican celestial iconography; images of the Sun; Moon and Venus; Mexican Altiplano codices
Summary/Abstract: Numerous images of various celestial deities appear in the graphic scenes in Postclassic and colonial codices as "Telleriano-Remensis, Vatican A, Borbónico, the Borgia, Vatican B, Cospi, Fejérváry-Mayer, Laud. Moreover, their names are also mentioned in" the accounts following the Spanish conquest, such as the General History of the Things of "New Spain", historical sources the "First Memorial" of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún. Furthermore, generations of scholars have been able to identify those deities in other pre-Hispanic and colonial documents (Seler (1980), Nowotny (2005), Anders, Jansen, Reyes Garcia (1992), Aguilera (1988), Caso (1996), Boone (2007)). This work was also followed by cultural astronomers (Bricker (2001), Siarkiewicz (1995), Aveni (1999)). In this paper, I describe the Sun, Moon, and Venus images that I will define following examples and statistical tables with iconographic specifications.
Book: La vida bajo el cielo estrellado: la arqueoastronomía y etnoastronomía en Latinoamérica
- Page Range: 231-243
- Page Count: 13
- Publication Year: 2021
- Language: Spanish, Portuguese
- Content File-PDF