Aztec mythology; Indian mythology -- Mexico; Mexico -- Religion
Peñafiel, A., Monumentos del arte Mexicano antiguo, 3 vols. (Berlin,
1890.) Destruccion del templo mayor de Mexico y los monumentos
encontrados en la ciudad en la excavaciones de 1897 y 1902. (Mexico,
1910.)
Prescott, W. H., History of the Conquest of Mexico. (New York, 1843.)
The few pages in which Prescott describes the religion of ancient
Mexico are now quite useless for the purposes of the serious student.
Réville, A., Les Religions du Mexique, de l’Amérique Centrale et du
Pérou. (Paris, 1885.) English translation as Origin and Growth of
Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru
(Hibbert Lectures), 1884.
A sketchy and inaccurate account, showing only a second-hand
acquaintance with the subject.
Robelo, C. A., Diccionario de mitologia Nahoa in Annals of the Mexican
Museum, vols. ii–v, Second Series. (Mexico, 1905.)
Saville, M. H., “The Plumed Serpent in Northern Mexico.” (The
Archæologist, vol. ii, pp. 291–293.)
Seler, Eduard, Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur Amerikanischen Sprach- und
Altertumskunde, 5 vols. (Berlin, 1902–1915.)
This monumental work, comprising almost the entire output of its
learned author, is indispensable for the study of Mexican archæology
and religion.
Spence, Lewis, The Civilization of Ancient Mexico (Cambridge Manuals of
Science and Letters). (London, 1911.) The Myths of Mexico and Peru.
(London, 1913.)
The former work is a digest of the strictly verifiable material of
Mexican history and religion; the latter a sketch of the subject on
popular lines.
Spinden, Herbert J., A Study of Maya Art (Memoirs of the Peabody
Museum, Harvard, vol. vi). (Cambridge, Mass., 1913.)
This admirable work, which is chiefly concerned with the subject-matter
and development of Maya art, touches in places upon the forms and
insignia of the Mexican deities.
Strebel, H., Alt-Mexico, Archäologische Beiträge, 2 vols. (Hamburg and
Leipzig.)
Tylor, E. B., Anahuac or Mexico and the Mexicans. (London, 1861.)
Veytia, M., Historia antigua de Mexico. (Mexico, 1836.)
Wesselhoeft, Selma, and Parker, A. M., Mexican and Central American
Antiquities, Calendar Systems and History. Twenty-four papers by Eduard
Seler, E. Förstemann, Paul Schellhas, Carl Sapper, and E. P.
Dieseldorff, translated from the German, under the supervision of
Charles P. Bowditch. Bulletin 28 of the Bureau of American Ethnology,
Washington, 1904.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE CODICES RELATING TO MEXICAN MYTHOLOGY
I. INTERPRETATIVE CODICES
Codex Vaticanus A (3738) or Codex Rios.
(A) Reproduced in vol. ii of Kingsborough’s Antiquities of Mexico,
1830. Translation of the Interpretation in vol. vi, pp. 155–420.
(B) Reproduced by the Duc de Loubat. (Rome, 1900.)
Codex Telleriano-Remensis.
(A) Reproduced in Kingsborough’s Antiquities, vol. i. Translation of
the Interpretation in vol. vi, pp. 95–153.
(B) Reproduced by the Duc de Loubat (Paris, 1899), with commentary by
E. T. Hamy.
Codex Magliabecchiano.
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