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The Bodley: Astro, History or Both?

To write about the Bodley Codex was more complex than I imagined it would be. I choose two pictures on page 17 to work with for this section of my web site. It was not a mistake, but it turned out to be more complicated than just the two figures.

I felt that on p. 17, 4th row, on the left, the sky jaguar surrounded by stars appears to be a new setting for the constellations, a change in the zodiac

The picture on the 3rd row down, on the right side. It was a sun dog who probably signifies Xolotl, the dog who threw himself iinto the underworld in order to save the sun.

I thought that was enough to think about on these

pages. However, in and around these two, there was a whole series of star notations that extended to page 18. They could not be denied. They also were part of the star events. So the following will be a reveiw of those forms.

I have deliberately left out the dates determined by Caso. The events detailed even in this small segment of the codex may have been centuries earlier.

And in effect, one might be reading an actual geneaology which is superimposed upon an earlier history. That history might have been destroyed by the Friars if they had known its true time frame.

In order to appreciate the various comments by Alfonso Caso and what I think I see in the star forms, the best way to follow the next pages is to save the above picture in landscape view, and print it out, so there is no bouncing back and forth (or up and down) to see what is being discussed. From here, there are five linked pages, from the lowest