La description du Grand Temple de Mexico par Bernardino de Sahagún (Codex de Florence, annexe du Livre II)
The description of the Great Temple of Mexico by Bernardino de Sahagún (Florentine Codex, Appendix of Book 2). The appendix of Florentine Codex’s Book 2, describing the 78 buildings of the Great Temple of Mexico, is a major source of knowledge of the Aztec ceremonial centre today rediscovered thanks...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Société des américanistes
2002-01-01
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| Series: | Journal de la Société des Américanistes |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/jsa/2742 |
| Summary: | The description of the Great Temple of Mexico by Bernardino de Sahagún (Florentine Codex, Appendix of Book 2). The appendix of Florentine Codex’s Book 2, describing the 78 buildings of the Great Temple of Mexico, is a major source of knowledge of the Aztec ceremonial centre today rediscovered thanks to archaeology. This paper proposes a detailed analysis of Sahagún’s testimony in order to underline its internal coherence as well as the sometimes completely new nature of the information it contains, notably concerning unknown gods and minor rituals. The comparison of these data with the other sources enables us to evaluate this text’s validity and to emphasize its constant references to the different districts (calpulli) of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. Eventually, the assumption that this list refers to a representation of an enclosure, a system already used in Sahagún’s Primeros Memoriales, is tested and a potential reconstitution of it is proposed. |
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| ISSN: | 0037-9174 1957-7842 |