teocalli (TR36v)
This multicolored drawing is an iconographic example for the noun teocalli (temple). It shows a double or twin temple in one, each with its own staircase and distinct colors and designs on the buildings at the top of the stairs.
Stephanie Wood
There is no gloss that identifies this image as a "teocalli," but the "Mexico" gloss, along with comparisons that an be made with other temples, support this identification. Mexico City's major temple was double like this one, as was Tlatelolco's main temple. For the latter, see the Codex Mendoza, folio 10 recto. The themes of the buildings are switched in the Tlatelolco image, with the blue (rain, Tlaloc) temple being on the left instead of the right as it is here.
Stephanie Wood
mexico
Mexico
Stephanie Wood
ca. 1550–1563
Jeff Haskett-Wood
templos con crestería, pirámides, Mexicas, Mexicah, religión, arquitectura
teocal(li), temple, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teocalli
el templo doble de los Mexicas
Stephanie Wood
Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 36 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f98.item.zoom
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