espíritu santo (Azca29)
This painted black-line drawing of the unglossed iconographic example of the Holy Spirit (which we have named espíritu santo here, after the use of that term in the Codex Sierra-Texupan) comes from the flag carried by the invading Spanish party in 1519 that is depicted in the Codex Azcatitlan. The full, bird-like spirit is shown in a frontal view with its wings opened, a golden halo, two eyes, and a beak.
Stephanie Wood
The contextualizing image, showing the scene of the invading Spanish party suggests considerable familiarity with things European. Considerable detail is found on the horse, weapons and armor, and the large red banner.
Stephanie Wood
post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.
Jeff Haskett-Wood
invasión española, 1519, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, Christian religion, banderas
espíritu, holy spirit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/espiritu
Espíritu Santo
Stephanie Wood
The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=29&st=image
The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.
