#codex telleriano-remensis

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldSerpentDay: Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent deity of the Aztecs, shown here in full zoomorphic form snacking on a human in the Codex Telleriano-Remensis, c. 1563. [BnF MS Mexicain 385 f. 18r]

[noosphe-re]

Codex Telleriano-Remensis. Ritual, Divination, and History in a Pictorial Aztec Manuscript. Foreword by Emmanuel le Roy Laduire. Illustrations by Michel Besson

[messoamerica]

The Codex Vaticanus A / Codex Rios is an adaptation of the Codex Telleriano-Remensis, a colonial Spanish manuscript, translated into Italian with annotations by a Dominican friar working in Oaxaca, Mexico. The manuscript was likely created in Italy after AD 1566 and recounts the history of Tolteca-Chichimeca culture from AD 1195 - 1549. 

Top, page 4. "The first age in Mexican cosmogony ended with a great flood when the water deity descended to earth. Men were changed into fish, but one couple managed to escape the deluge. During this age, giants lived on earth (here, the large reclining body).“

Bottom, page 54: Signs representing the twenty days of the ritual calendar are linked to a part of the body. 

[gwydionmisha]

Aztec Pictograms Are the First Written Records of Earthquakes in the Americas

New analysis of the 16th-century "Codex Telleriano-Remensis" reveals 12 references to the natural disasters

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[2003rover45]

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