The Codex Borbonicus Veintena Imagery : Visualizing History, Time, and Ritual in Aztec Solar-Year Festivals / Catherine R. DiCesare.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DiCesare, Catherine, author.

Series:

Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ; Volume 56.

Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 Series ; Volume 56

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aztec calendar.

Aztecs--Religion.

Aztecs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : Amsterdam University Press, [2024]

Summary:

The sixteenth-century pictorial manuscript known as the Codex Borbonicus contains a remarkable record of the eighteen Mexica (or “Aztec”) festival periods of twenty days, known as veintenas, celebrated during the 365-day solar year. Because its indigenous artists framed the Borbonicus veintenas with historical year dates, this volume situates the annually recurring rituals within the march of linear, reckoned time, in the singular year “2 Reed” (1507), during the reign of Moteuczoma II. DiCesare attends to the historical dimensions of several unusual scenes, proposing that the veintenas probably varied significantly from year to year in response to historical concerns. She considers particularly whether the Borbonicus veintenas document the confluence of solar year ceremonies with a second set of ritual feast days, governed by the 260-day cycle known as the tonalpohualli, or “count of days.” In this way, DiCesare analyzes how linear and cyclical conceptions of time intersected in Mexica ritual performance.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Time, History, and the Calendars of the Mexican Codex Borbonicus

2. Tlaloc Rites and Mountain Feasts: The Veintena Festivals of Tozoztontli and Huey Tozoztli

3. In Search of Jades and Quetzal Plumes: The Veintena Feasts of Tecuilhuitontli and Huey Tecuilhuitl

4. Pulque Revelry in the Mexican Veintena of Quecholli

5. The Emergence of a New Sun: The Veintena of Panquetzaliztli and the New Fire Ceremony

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-003-70555-3

90-485-5723-2

9781003705550

OCLC:

1455293674

Publisher Number:

CIPO000299069