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codex

[koh-deks] / ˈkoʊ dɛks /




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One can’t possibly grasp the closeness two people share until they’ve experienced firsthand the joy and indescribable pain that come with the kind of enmeshment written in fate’s codex.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Ancient Aztec communities from the pre-Columbian period of Mesoamerica had a rich mythological codex that was also part of their ritual and sacrificial ceremonies.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2024

He has now dispatched an army of stabby crab-like aliens through portals to retrieve the Eddie-Venom codex and free himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024

The codex is on display at Christie's New York and will remain there until 9 April.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2024

The drawing at left, from a sixteenth-century codex, is a winter- count-like depiction of a year dominated by smallpox; two men lie dying or dead, their bodies spotted with pustules.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The temporary exchange of the two codices was agreed by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and her French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, during a visit by the latter to Mexico last year.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

A symbol of status, carmine red was already employed by the nobility of Mexico’s Indigenous peoples to dye garments, and widely used in the arts, to write codices, decorate ceramics and paint murals.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023

They also used codices, book-like records drawn on bark paper that combined both images and pictograms.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Starting from this perspective, Dr. Ezcurra and his co-authors present a calendar model that matches the location of the sun on the horizon to festivities cited in Mesoamerican codices.

From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2022

No fewer than four of the codices treat the story of 8-Deer Jaguar Claw, a wily priest-general-politician with a tragic love for the wife of his greatest enemy.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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