The Codex Borbonicus Veintena Imagery
Visualizing History, Time, and Ritual in Aztec Solar-Year Festivals
Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700; 56;
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Product details:
- Publisher Amsterdam University Press
- Date of Publication 19 September 2024
- ISBN 9789463721394
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 240x170 mm
- Weight 546 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 40 Illustrations, black & white; 8 Illustrations, color 647
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Long description:
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.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Time, History, and the Calendars of the Mexican Codex Borbonicus
Chapter 2: Tlaloc Rites and Mountain Feasts: The Veintena Festivals of Tozoztontli and Huey Tozoztli
Chapter 3: In Search of Jades and Quetzal Plumes: The Veintena Feasts of Tecuilhuitontli and Huey Tecuilhuitl
Chapter 4: Pulque Revelry in the Mexican Veintena of Quecholli
Chapter 5: The Emergence of a New Sun: The Veintena of Panquetzaliztli and the New Fire Ceremony
Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Index
