Presence, Conventions and Marks of Itzcóatl in the Huichapan Codex
Abstract
The Huichapan Codex is a fundamental historiographical source to understand the Late Posclasic Mesoamerican Period, and the first century of the Hispanic domination of Mexico´s basin during the first half of the 17th century. The Codex contains pictographs and alphabetic glosses in náhuatl and otomi / hñahñu, arranged in four parts. The fourth section of this codex has a vision about the war between Tenochtitlan and Azcapotzalco, where Itzcóatl, fourth Mexica-Tenochca Tlahtoani, was represented in the codex as the leader of the expansionist politics of his group towards the Huichapan/ Jilotepec region. This article analyzes the Itzcóatl representations in the narrative structure of the codex, and the traduction of the hñahñu gloses realized by Lawrence Ecker and Manuel Alvarado Guinchard respectively.
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