New Reflections on the Origin and Content of the Solar Year Festivities in the Codex Borbonicus
The third section of the Codex Borbonicus contains the most complex representation of the eighteen veintenas of the Nahua solar year among the 16th century pictographic manuscripts. Entire generations of researchers have contributed to the understanding of the content of these plates, producing an...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/78097 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://nahuatl.historicas.unam.mx/index.php/ecn/article/view/78097 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Códice Borbónico Códice Magliabechiano veintenas mitología variantes rituales Codex Borbonicus Codex Magliabechiano mythology ritual variants |
| Sumario: | The third section of the Codex Borbonicus contains the most complex representation of the eighteen veintenas of the Nahua solar year among the 16th century pictographic manuscripts. Entire generations of researchers have contributed to the understanding of the content of these plates, producing an essential literature for the analysis of the monthly festivities of Central Mexico. In this article we present a new reading of this ritual cycle, based on two proposals. Firstly, we posit that at least six of the eighteen celebrations are different regional variants with respect to the ceremonies of the months described in the sources of the Mexica tradition. Secondly, we suggest that the analysis of these variants can provide us with novel information to identify the place of origin of the document, problematizing and completing the pioneering proposal of Henry Nicholson (1988). Furtherly, the meticulous comparison of the ceremonies represented in the veintenas of the Codex Borbonicus with the description of the festivities listed in other documentary sources allows us to establish new and unpublished links between this manuscript, and the alphabetical and pictographic documents of the 16th century. |
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