Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate

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Appendix Content Summaries Manuscripts of the Aztec Tradition Codex Borbonicus 1. 3–20: Tonalpohualli in trecenas, fully elaborated with trecena patrons, the 260 day dates (signs + coefficients), Night Lords, Day Lords, and Volatiles (Fig. 46, Plate 1).The first two pages are missing. Reads from left to right; on each page the days read from left to right, then from mid-page to top. (= Tonalamatl Aubin 3–20, which additionally has deity heads in the Volatiles’ mouths; Telleriano-Remensis 8r–24r and Vaticanus A/Ríos 12v–37r, which lack Day Lords and Volatiles; = Borgia 61–70 and Vaticanus B 49–68 trecena patrons only; Volatiles also found in Borgia 71, Tudela 98v–99r; Night Lords also found in Borgia 14, Cospi 1–8, Fejérváry-Mayer 1, 2–4, Tudela 98v–124r,Vaticanus B 19b–23b) 2. 21–22: Fifty-twoyears (1 Rabbit–13 House) associated with the Night Lords of their year-bearer days, arranged as frames around two scenes: the first thirteen years around Cipactonal and Oxomoco (Fig. 7), the second thirteen years around Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca. Reads counterclockwise, beginning in lower left of each page. Codex Telleriano-Remensis 1. 8r–24r: Tonalpohualli in trecenas, with trecena patrons, the 260 day dates (signs + coefficients), Night Lords (Fig. 48). Each trecena spans facing verso-recto pages; reads from left to right. First verso page is missing. (= Vaticanus A/Ríos 12v– 37r; = Borbonicus 3–20 and Tonalamatl Aubin 3–20 but without Day Lords and Volatiles; = Borgia 61–70 and Vaticanus B 49–68 trecena patrons only; Night Lords also found in Borgia 14, Cospi 1–8, Fejérváry-Mayer 1, 2–4, Tudela 98v–124r, Vaticanus B 19b–23b) Tonalamatl Aubin 1. 3–20: Tonalpohualli in trecenas, fully elaborated with trecena patrons, the 260 day dates (signs + coefficients), the Night Lords, Day Lords, and Volatiles (with deity faces in their mouths) (Fig. 47). The first two pages are missing. Reads from right to left; on each page the days read from top to mid-page, then right to left. (= Borbonicus 3–20, which lacks deity heads in the Volatiles’ mouths; Telleriano-Remensis 8r– 24r and Vaticanus A/Ríos 12v–37r, which lack Day Lords and Volatiles; = Borgia 61–70 and Vaticanus B 49–68 trecena patrons only; Volatiles also found in Borgia 71; Night Lords also found in Borgia 14, Cospi 1–8, Fejérváry-Mayer 1, 2–4, Tudela 98v–124r,Vaticanus B 19b–23b) Codex Tudela 1a. 97r–124r: Tonalpohualli presented in a single row (as a list), with the thirteen day signs of each trecena spanning the spread 240 c o n t e n t s u m m a r i e s of verso-recto pages, seven signs on the verso and six signs on the recto (Fig. 54, Plate 3). The tonalpohualli is divided into four groups of five trecenas (sixty-five days) according to the four directions; each group is associated with a cosmic tree and two supernaturals (Fig. 66). Night Lords given for each day sign; Volatiles given for the first thirteen. Reads from left to right. (Conceptually similar to Fejérváry-Mayer 1 in listing the tonalpohualli signs as a continuous line and associating the sequential blocks of sixty-five days to the four directions.) (Night Lords and Volatiles = Borbonicus 3–20, Tonalamatl Aubin 3–20. Volatiles = Borgia 71; Night Lords also found in Borgia 14, Cospi 1–8, Fejérváry-Mayer 1, 2–4, TellerianoRemensis 8r–24r,Vaticanus A/Ríos 12v–37r,Vaticanus B 19b– 23b) 1b. 90r–124r: Text and glosses that accompany the painted almanac through trecena 5 (p. 103r) name patron deities for the half-trecenas (= Lords of the Half Trecenas in Borgia 75– 76, which is organized as a compressed table; Cervantes de Salazar [bk. 1, ch. 29] partially describes a similar almanac) 2. 125r: Corporeal almanac with twenty day signs displayed on and around a splayed deerskin (Fig. 60). Reads generally from side to side, bottom to top. (~ Borgia 53a,Vaticanus B 96,Vaticanus A/Ríos 54r,which have signs in different orders) Codex Vaticanus A/Ríos 1. 11rv: Text incompletely describes a directional almanac organized as a compressed tablewith the twenty trecenas (trecena day signs and twelve spacers) associated with the four directions ,with five signs foreach direction. (= calendrics and general directional association of Borgia 49b–53b) 2. 12v–37r: Tonalpohualli in trecenas, with trecena patrons, the...