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RaynalJacquemin β Aztec codex
Published: 2013-03-06 10:02:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 3769; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 12
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This is the only one aztec codex in a french museum, it is called "the Borbonicus codex" because it is kept at the Bourbon palace in Paris.Hope you like it.
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These figures, drawings Β ....so interesting.
Centuries went on, this civilization no longer exists. And here we are, 21st. centuryΒ
folks looking at all this saved as pixels and converted into electrical current signal
with its further conversion into binary system.
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The Aztecs were very far from imagining that theirs artworks wouldΒ be shown like that!
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No se parece azteca, ES azteca!
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You meant to say Mexica not Aztec... Aztecs did not have a "writing" system at all.
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Aren't they the same people actually?
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No, Aztecs were their predecessors, hundreds of years before, by then they had no writing and had only one God, witch was Coyolxauhqui, some of the Aztecs got knowledge of a new God but he was a war deity (Huitzilopochtli), something Aztecs were not so fond of since they were a small group, so they out casted the followers of the new God, the descendants of those outcasts were the ones that built the city of Tenochtitlan, and created an empire, they were known as the Mexica.
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Ok then it's a late Mexica codex, around the 1510-1520 era, then just before their end because of this asshole of Cortez!
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Hmmmm hahahaha I would not call him and asshole, if anything he was a cunning greedy man and it was not him who brought the demise of the Mexica but their ruler, Moctezuma who was indecisive and paralyzed with fear of myths. (the story about the return of Quetzalcoatl)Β
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I am impressed by the use of the color blue in this piece, because I understood that color pigment to be difficult to procure in ancient times. The large figure to the left of the page is the goddess Xochiquetzal, who was vaguely equivalent to the Roman Venus. There is a large yellow centipede coming out from the bottom of her chair. I have noticed these centipedes recently as I have been looking over Aztec art, but I have yet to figure out what they symbolize.
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That's evident that Blue were very difficult to procure in the 14th century, and also expensive, because they used to have to crush a lot of turquoise stones to obtain a poor quantity of pigments.
Xochiquetzal is(for a few part of her functions)a goddess of nature, so, the centipede might be a representation of this nature like the snake or the jaguar skin at her feet, but exactly, I don't really know the symbol of this one, and I've been looking for it for a long time, so I'll be very pleased if you find this information before myself to keep me informed.
Thank you.
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Hey, I found this article about the recipe for ancient Mesoamerican blue paint! [link]
I haven't found much about the centipede other than that it may refer to a constellation in the night sky.
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