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

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This Paperback Book item from Dover Publications was reviewed on 3-Nov-2008.

Search ISBN:0486275698 offer from Abebooks or used books from Alibris. The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript Reference Book. Classifications : Native American Regional History & Criticism Arts & Photography Subjects Books General AAS History & Criticism Arts & Photography Subjects Books General Instructional & How-To Arts & Photography Subje . Click the following link to view the cover of The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript.

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1) Paperback Book The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript by Dover Publications. 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¤

2) Paperback Book The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript by Dover Publications. Even if you, like me, don´t have much of a knowledge base about ancient Mexican history, it´s cool just to show people the book. I´ve flipped through it and gained a vague understanding of how it fits into history, and I appreciate that it brings to life an aspect of a culture that I really only know through mythology. The preface to explain the Codex is probably well-written, although, admittedly, I felt rather daunted by it. Skimming through it was still valuable, though. A good conversation piece!¤

3) Paperback Book The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript by Dover Publications. I will not go over their 5 star comments except to say that I agree. The amazingly colourful and crisp art in this short book is rivetting. As much as one may credit the reknowned author, deep congratulations should also go to the publisher for a masterful print job.¤

4) Paperback Book The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript by Dover Publications. Sin duda este es un título que no debe faltar en ningúna biblioteca personal, ya que la restauración de uno de los principales códices es perfecta, para aquellos interesados en la cultura y ciencia ancestral este códice es de gran ayuda.¤

5) Paperback Book The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript by Dover Publications. This is a very strange and beautiful book in pictures. It reads like a dream if you tune in to it, and reveals very deep meanings about the relation between life and death, the human relation to the forces of nature, and time. Even though there are no words, it is possible to understand. If you get into it the symbols become more and more recognizable, and they begin to speak. the calendrical symbols and the spirit deities are completely recognizable. The sequences are all about times, and there is a big element about sacrifice. It has to do with the consequences of change; there is no life without death. The book has a very powerful image of life and death fused back to back that pretty much is the epitome of all the book is about. It´s all about life and death in relation to time.¤

6) Paperback Book The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript by Dover Publications. First publication of remarkable repainting of outstanding Mexican codex (priceless original is in Vatican Library), thought to have originated in the Cholula area, ca. a.d. 1400. Seventy-six large full-color plates show an astounding array of gods, kings, warriors, mythical creatures and abstract designs. A work of rare power and beauty now available in this inexpensive, high-quality edition. Introduction.
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