Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Codex Borbonicus... A Sacred Almanac

So a Sacred Almanac of the Aztecs arrived the other day... This one in fact  

and it didn't even have to leave New York to do it.Thank you Hofstra for stepping up!

The book itself was limited to 600 copies and has some noticeable differences from the Tonomatl Aubin in style and content.

Compare the Aubin Quetzalcoatl sacrifice here in lithograph...


 

And here again in photograph...





To the Borbonicus scene - depicting the same principal actors...



Here we see the gods have switched places, with Quetzalcoatl on the right and Tepeyollotl on the left. The text goes on to say that symbol between them is the sign for war (the shield and darts) and that Tepeyolltol has a spider at his feet and is dressed in a jaguar skin (instead of being an actual jaguar). Q.'s left hand still holds the sign for excrement, and there is a basket between them which is supported by skulls and contains hearts...

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