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Symbols, Glyphs, and Divinatory Almanacs for Diseases in the Maya Dresden and Madrid Codices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

J. Eric S. Thompson
J. Eric S. Thompson*
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Carnegie Institution of Washington Cambridge, Mass.
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No satisfactory explanation, to the best of my knowledge, has been offered of the scenes on pages 16-20 of the Maya Dresden codex and the parallel passages on pages 93-95 of Codex Madrid which depict a goddess or woman in association with various birds, animals, and gods. She carries them on her head or shoulders or on a pack on her back supported by a strap across her chest.

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American Antiquity , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , January 1958 , pp. 297 - 308
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1958

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