The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript Summary and Reviews

The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript
by Gisele Diaz, Alan Rodgers

The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript
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Author: Alan Rodgers, Gisele Diaz
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1993-06-22
ISBN: 0486275698
Number of pages: 96
Publisher: Dover Publications

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Book Review: Magnificent reproduction of the Mixtec Codex
Summary: 5 Stars

This Codex is remarkable at any price. The colors and reproductions are simply gorgeous and the text is helpful. Present are a bewildering number of religious pictograms, some calendric and other representing the mystical or dreamlike journey of the strange character 'one-eye.'

The characters are, overwhelmingly, bloodsoaked and violent. There is decapitation, dismemberment and heart sacrifice. This document gives the lie to those anthropologists who claim that the mesoamerican societies are 'misunderstood' and were not human sacrificial--that tales of human sacrifice and cannibalism were tales perpetrated by the Conquistadores to justify their conquest and subjugation of gentle cultures.

Well, not quite. Judging my this and other codices, as well as archaeologic revelations, suggest that these societies were just as bloodstained as advertised. This is not to justify the Spanish Conquest but just a simple fact.

At the same time, many of the characters in this codex require major interpretation. Virtually everything is split, injured or vomits blood. Depictions of people [children?] being tortured and blinded are especially disturbing. Nevertheless, this is a document well worth owning.

Ron Braithwaite author of novels--"Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God"--on the Spanish Conquest of Mexic

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