Making of the World, Making of the Discourse: Similarities between the Codices Borgia and Vindobonensis
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Abstract. The aim of this article is to show the existence of some paralel narratives in the central part of the Codex Borgia and in the obverse side of the Codex Vindobonensis. Both codices are eponymous of the so called “Borgia Group” and the “Vindobonensis Group”. The first group is formed by “prescriptive codices” and they accomplish with divinatory function. The second set is composed by “descriptive codices” and their content was historic (Jansen 1988, 2002). Nevertheless, this differentiation is not suitable either for the observe side of the Codex Vindobonensis, or for the central part of the Codex Borgia, as both of them register parallel episodes. On the other hand, graphic discourse, understood as a form of encoding information through the spatial distribution of significant units, demonstrates similarities both between these two codices and with the general principles of the construction of sacred discourse.
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