LEADER 04438nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910777763403321 005 20230721031503.0 010 $a0-292-79528-9 024 7 $a10.7560/712638 035 $a(CKB)1000000000472942 035 $a(OCoLC)646760625 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245653 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000134323 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11147970 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000134323 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10055554 035 $a(PQKB)11496721 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443186 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2282 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443186 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245653 035 $a(DE-B1597)587668 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292795280 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000472942 100 $a20060921d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCycles of time and meaning in the Mexican books of fate$b[electronic resource] /$fElizabeth Hill Boone 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (330 p.) 225 1 $aJoe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-71263-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-294) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tFigures -- $tColor Plates -- $tTables -- $tPreface -- $t1 Containers of the Knowledge of the World -- $t2 Time, the Ritual Calendar, and Divination -- $t3 The Symbolic Vocabulary of the Almanacs -- $t4 Structures of Prophetic Knowledge -- $t5 The Almanacs -- $t6 Protocols for Ritual -- $t7 The Cosmogony in the Codex Borgia -- $t8 Provenience -- $t9 A Mexican Divinatory System -- $tAppendix: Content Summaries -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn communities throughout precontact Mesoamerica, calendar priests and diviners relied on pictographic almanacs to predict the fate of newborns, to guide people in choosing marriage partners and auspicious wedding dates, to know when to plant and harvest crops, and to be successful in many of life's activities. As the Spanish colonized Mesoamerica in the sixteenth century, they made a determined effort to destroy these books, in which the Aztec and neighboring peoples recorded their understanding of the invisible world of the sacred calendar and the cosmic forces and supernaturals that adhered to time. Today, only a few of these divinatory codices survive. Visually complex, esoteric, and strikingly beautiful, painted books such as the famous Codex Borgia and Codex Borbonicus still serve as portals into the ancient Mexican calendrical systems and the cycles of time and meaning they encode. In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Hill Boone analyzes the entire extant corpus of Mexican divinatory codices and offers a masterful explanation of the genre as a whole. She introduces the sacred, divinatory calendar and the calendar priests and diviners who owned and used the books. Boone then explains the graphic vocabulary of the calendar and its prophetic forces and describes the organizing principles that structure the codices. She shows how they form almanacs that either offer general purpose guidance or focus topically on specific aspects of life, such as birth, marriage, agriculture and rain, travel, and the forces of the planet Venus. Boone also tackles two major areas of controversy?the great narrative passage in the Codex Borgia, which she freshly interprets as a cosmic narrative of creation, and the disputed origins of the codices, which, she argues, grew out of a single religious and divinatory system. 410 0$aJoe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture. 606 $aAztec mythology 606 $aAztec calendar 606 $aManuscripts, Nahuatl$zMexico 606 $aAztecs$xRites and ceremonies 615 0$aAztec mythology. 615 0$aAztec calendar. 615 0$aManuscripts, Nahuatl 615 0$aAztecs$xRites and ceremonies. 676 $a529/.32978452 700 $aBoone$b Elizabeth Hill$01497331 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777763403321 996 $aCycles of time and meaning in the Mexican books of fate$93855244 997 $aUNINA