Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate

Figures

Figures 1. The twenty nights and twenty days in the cosmogony of the Codex Vienna 52 14 2. Physical structure of a screenfold 18 3. The head priest observes the stars, Codex Mendoza 63r 23 4. Cipactonal and Oxomoco carved on a boulder near Yauhtepec 24 5. Cipactonal and Oxomoco divine by scattering maize and pulling a knotted cord 24 6. Oxomoco and Cipactonal on the face of the Calendar Temple at Tlatelolco 25 7. Oxomoco and Cipactonal surrounded by year signs and Lords of the Night, Codex Borbonicus 21 26 8. Female physicians diagnose illness in the presence of Quetzalcoatl, Codex Magliabechiano 78r 27 9. Metaphoric titles of Lord 9 Wind, Codex Vienna 48b 28 10. The soothsayer reads the fate of a child born on the day 10 Rabbit 30 11. The washing and naming ceremony of a newborn child 31 12. Day signs in Borgia Group codices 37 13. Abbreviated day signs 38 14. Day numbers with day signs 39 15. Spacers employed as markers 39 16. Day date 1 Monkey and year date 1 House 39 17. Major gods who appear in the divinatory codices 44 18. Patron deity Tlazolteotl presented as a cult bundle 49 19. Poses and actions of human figures 49 20. Human occupations and states of being 50 21. Poses and gestures 51 22. Birds 52 23. Ground animals 53 24. Elements of the built environment 54 25. Landscape features 55 26. Implements for blood sacrifice 56 27. Offerings 57 28. Monkey playing musical instruments, Codex Borgia 24 58 29. Weapons 59 30. Implements for work 59 31. Symbols 60 32. Eagle and serpent doing battle over a rabbit 62 33. Trecena panel, Codex Borbonicus 11 63 34. List almanac, Codex Borgia 9–13 69 35. Day signs and patrons, Codex Borgia 9b 70 36. Day signs and patrons, Codex Vaticanus B 87 71 37. Grouped list almanac, Codex Borgia 55 72 38. Grouped list almanac, Codex Fejérváry-Mayer 30a–32a 72 39. In extenso almanac, Codex Borgia 1–2 74 40. Diagram of Codex Borgia 1–8 74 41. Day signs and scenes of the second position 75 42. Compressed table almanac, Codex FejérváryMayer 33b–34b 77 x l i s t o f f i g u r e s 43. Codex Dresden 6b–7b 78 44. Deerskin almanac, Codex Borgia 53a 79 45. Structure of the trecena almanacs 89 46. Trecena 4, Codex Borbonicus 4 90 47. Trecena 4, Codex Tonalamatl Aubin 4 91 48. Trecena 4, Codex Telleriano-Remensis 10v–11r 92 49. Trecena 4, Codex Borgia 64b 92 50. Trecena 4, Codex Vaticanus B 52 93 51. Nine Lords of the Night 96 52. Nine Lords of the Night, Codex Borgia 14 97 53. Nine Lords of the Night, Codex Fejérváry-Mayer 2–4 99 54. Volatiles, Night Lords, and day signs of trecena 1, Codex Tudela 98v–99r 100 55. Volatiles, Codex Borgia 71 101 56. Structure of the almanacs presenting the day signs and their patrons 103 57. Patrons of the day sign Crocodile 104 58. Patrons of the day sign Lizard 106 59. Deerskin almanac, Codex Vaticanus B 96 108 60. Deerskin almanac, Codex Tudela 125r 109 61. Corporeal almanac, Codex Vaticanus A/Ríos 54r 110 62. Trecena signs with Quetzalcoatl and Mictlantecuhtli, Codex Borgia 56 111 63. Trecena signs arranged around the gods within four serpents, Codex Borgia 72 112 64. Day signs arranged around four scorpions, Codex Vaticanus B 95a 113 65. Cross almanac, Codex Fejérváry-Mayer 1 115 66. Cosmic tree and lords governing trecenas of the north, Codex Tudela 104r 117 67. Aubin Manuscript No. 20 118 68. The five directions, Cihuateteo, and Macuiltonaleque, Aubin Manuscript No. 20 120 69. Twenty day signs according to the four directions, Codex Porfirio Díaz 33 120 70. The Cihuateteo and Macuiltonaleque, preceded by the two deer, Codex Vaticanus B 77–79 121 71. Multipart directional almanac, Codex Borgia 49b–53b 122 72. The trecenas of the east, Borgia 49b 124 73. Cosmic trees and patrons of the trecenas, Codex Vaticanus B 17–18 127 74. Animal attacks, Codex Fejérváry-Mayer 41a–42a, Codex Vaticanus B 24–27 128 75. Sky bearers and lords, with the day signs beginning with Grass, Codex Borgia 49a–53a 130 76. Lords of the half-trecenas, Codex Borgia 75–76 133 77. Lords under bowers, according to the half-trecenas, Codex Laud 9...