Quetzalcoatl - Codex Magliabechiano is a photograph by Serge Averbukh which was uploaded on May 26th, 2015.
Quetzalcoatl - Codex Magliabechiano
Framed and wrapped canvas fine art prints, featuring Quetzalcoatl in human warrior form – the Snake-God of Mesoamerica, as depicted in the Codex... more
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Quetzalcoatl - Codex Magliabechiano
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Serge Averbukh
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framed and wrapped canvas fine art prints, featuring Quetzalcoatl in human warrior form – the Snake-God of Mesoamerica, as depicted in the Codex Magliabechiano.
Codex Magliabechiano is a pictorial Aztec codex created during the mid-16th century, in the early Spanish colonial period. It is representative of a set of codices known collectively as the Magliabechiano Group. Others in the group include the Codex Tudela and the Codex Ixtlilxochitl.
The Codex Magliabechiano is primarily a religious document. Its 92 pages are almost a glossary of cosmological and religious elements. They depict in turn the 20 day-names of the tonalpohualli the 18 monthly feasts, and the 52-year cycle. They also show various deities, indigenous religious rites, costumes, and cosmological beliefs. The Codex Magliabechiano is based on an earlier unknown codex, which is assumed to have been the prototype for the Magliabechiano Group. It is named after Antonio Magliabechi, a 17th century Italian manuscript collector, and is presently held in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy.
Quetzalcoatl is a mysterious ancient god who took the appearance of a serpent-like figure, whose body was covered with the emerald feathers of the sacred quetzal bird. Quetzalcoatl was Lord and Master of the wind, science and the arts, a supreme creator god who together with two brothers gave life to man and the universe during the current “fifth sun”. Quetzalcoatl (the Nahuatl name for the god means “feathered serpent”) is perhaps one of the most ancient gods to exist in Mesoamerica.
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May 26th, 2015
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