LAS FLORES EN LOS CÓDICES INDÍGENAS DE MÉXICO 87
V. Becerril Olivares, Ma. del C. Lechuga García, F. Rivas Castro (co-
ords.), Homenaje a la doctora Beatriz Barba de Piña Chán, Colec-
ción Científica, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Córdo-
ba, México, pp. 425—432.
SAMPSON 1985 — G. Sampson, Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction, Stan-
ford University Press, Stanford 1985.
ScHELE, MILLER 1975 — L. Schele, M.E. Miller, The Blood of Kings. Dynasty
and Ritual in Maya Art, George Braziller, INC., en asociacion con
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, New York 1975.
SCHELE, MATHEWS 1999 — L. Schele, P.Mathews, The Code of Kings. The Lan-
guage of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs. Con fotografias de
Justin Kerr y Macduff Everton, Simon and Schuster, New York 1999.
TauBE 2004 — K. Taube, F/ower Mountain: Concepts of Life, Beauty, and Para-
dise Among the Classic Maya”, “RES: Anthropology and aesthetics”,
45(2004), Harvard University Press, Harvard, pp. 69—98.
Tedlock 2007 [1985] — D. Tedlock, Popol Vuk. Księga Majów: o początkach
życia oraz chwale bogów i władców, trad. Izabela Szybilska, Helion,
Gliwice 2007 [Popo! Vuh: The Definitive Edition of The Mayan Book
of Ihe Dawn of Life and The Glories of Gods and Kings 1985].
WHITTAKER 2009 — G. Whittaker, 77e Principles of Nahuatl Writing. [Fuente
electrónica: https://www.academia.edu/1026927/The_Principles_of_
Nahuatl Writing].
WIMMER 2004 — A.Wimmer, Dictionnaire de la langue nahuatl classique, F uen-
te electrónica: http://sites.estvideo.net/malinal.
Summary
REPRESENTATIONS OF FLOWERS
IN THE INDIGENOUS CODICES OF MEXICO
The indigenous tribes inhabiting the area of the present Mexico in the pre-His-
panic times managed to develop various systems of graphic register. Although
the usage of phonographic writing was well documented only for two of those
cultures, namely the Mayas and the Zapotecs, most of the groups of the region
had some kind of graphic representation to code chosen messages. The commu-
nication used by the Nahua and the Mixtec tribes could be classified as basically
semasiogarphic, that is able to represent the ideas but not the language.
The main aim of the proposed work is to focus on the representations of flo-
wers in the codices of the ancient Nahuas and Mixtecs, and analyze their direct
and symbolic meaning encoded not only in the form, but also in the context in
V. Becerril Olivares, Ma. del C. Lechuga García, F. Rivas Castro (co-
ords.), Homenaje a la doctora Beatriz Barba de Piña Chán, Colec-
ción Científica, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Córdo-
ba, México, pp. 425—432.
SAMPSON 1985 — G. Sampson, Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction, Stan-
ford University Press, Stanford 1985.
ScHELE, MILLER 1975 — L. Schele, M.E. Miller, The Blood of Kings. Dynasty
and Ritual in Maya Art, George Braziller, INC., en asociacion con
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, New York 1975.
SCHELE, MATHEWS 1999 — L. Schele, P.Mathews, The Code of Kings. The Lan-
guage of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs. Con fotografias de
Justin Kerr y Macduff Everton, Simon and Schuster, New York 1999.
TauBE 2004 — K. Taube, F/ower Mountain: Concepts of Life, Beauty, and Para-
dise Among the Classic Maya”, “RES: Anthropology and aesthetics”,
45(2004), Harvard University Press, Harvard, pp. 69—98.
Tedlock 2007 [1985] — D. Tedlock, Popol Vuk. Księga Majów: o początkach
życia oraz chwale bogów i władców, trad. Izabela Szybilska, Helion,
Gliwice 2007 [Popo! Vuh: The Definitive Edition of The Mayan Book
of Ihe Dawn of Life and The Glories of Gods and Kings 1985].
WHITTAKER 2009 — G. Whittaker, 77e Principles of Nahuatl Writing. [Fuente
electrónica: https://www.academia.edu/1026927/The_Principles_of_
Nahuatl Writing].
WIMMER 2004 — A.Wimmer, Dictionnaire de la langue nahuatl classique, F uen-
te electrónica: http://sites.estvideo.net/malinal.
Summary
REPRESENTATIONS OF FLOWERS
IN THE INDIGENOUS CODICES OF MEXICO
The indigenous tribes inhabiting the area of the present Mexico in the pre-His-
panic times managed to develop various systems of graphic register. Although
the usage of phonographic writing was well documented only for two of those
cultures, namely the Mayas and the Zapotecs, most of the groups of the region
had some kind of graphic representation to code chosen messages. The commu-
nication used by the Nahua and the Mixtec tribes could be classified as basically
semasiogarphic, that is able to represent the ideas but not the language.
The main aim of the proposed work is to focus on the representations of flo-
wers in the codices of the ancient Nahuas and Mixtecs, and analyze their direct
and symbolic meaning encoded not only in the form, but also in the context in