Sweeping the Way: Divine Transformation in the Aztec Festival of Ochpaniztli

Contents

vii sw e e p in g t h e w ay Contents list of figures ix acknowledgments xi Foreword by Elizabeth Hill Boone xv introduction 1 Chapter One 17 Sources for Ochpaniztli: Negotiating Text and Image in Early Colonial Mexican Manuscripts Chapter two 35 Visualizing the Sacred in the Ochpaniztli Festival Chapter three 69 Purification and Renewal during the Festival of Ochpaniztli Chapter four 103 The Colonial Image of Tlazolteotl Chapter five 123 Ochpaniztli in the Mexican Codex Borbonicus Conclusion 155 notes 167 bibliography 209 index 223 ...