Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Aztec codices were usually made from long sheets of fig-bark paper or stretched deerskins sewn together to form long and narrow strips; others were painted on big cloths. [5] Thus, usual formats include screenfold books, strips known as tiras, rolls, and cloths, also known as lienzos. While no Aztec codex preserves its covers, from the example ...
The Codex Fejérváry-Mayer is an Aztec Codex of central Mexico. It is one of the rare Native American manuscripts that have survived the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. 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 almanac in 17 ...
As a result, it is unknown whether Aztec codices were created by a native method or created with the help of imported methods after the arrival of the Spanish. [2] The Codex Borbonicus is a single 46.5-foot (14.2 m) long sheet of amatl paper. Although there were originally 40 accordion-folded pages, the first two and the last two pages are missing.
The codex is fragmented, consisting of eleven pages out of what is presumed to be a twenty-page book and five single pages. [39] The codex has been housed at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, Mexico, since 2016, and is the only of the four Maya codices that still resides in the Americas. [40]
[6] [7] The prominence of human sacrifice and other forms of institutionalized violence in the Aztec universe is used to reflect and criticize the violence which exists in our society. [7] The secondary timeline of the novel, which takes place in modern California, is shown to be steeped in inequality and violence. [ 8 ]
Written on European paper, it contains 71 pages, divided into three sections: Section I, folios 1r to 17r or 18r, is a history of the Aztec people from 1325 through 1521 — from the founding of Tenochtitlan through the Spanish conquest. It lists the reign of each ruler and the towns conquered by them.
David Stuart, in a review published by The Wall Street Journal, praised the book as a "vivid account of what Aztec writers and chroniclers had to say about their own history". [3] Stuart further praised the book as "bridging of the cultures of Aztec literary history both before and after the coming of the Spanish" rather than operating as a ...
500 años fregados pero cristianos (English: 500 Years Screwed But Christian) is a 1992 illustrated book by Mexican cartoonist and writer Rius that was published by Grijalbo. The book is a sharp criticism of the Spanish conquest , the Catholic Church , and the current condition of the indigenous people of Latin America , who still are victims ...