Books
The codex is composed of the following twelve books:
- The Gods. Deals with gods worshiped by the natives of this land, which is New Spain.
- The Ceremonies. Deals with holidays and sacrifices with which these natives honored their gods in times of infidelity.
- The Origin of the Gods. About the creation of the gods.
- The Soothsayers. About Indian judiciary astrology or omens and fortune-telling arts.
- The Omens. Deals with foretelling these natives made from birds, animals, and insects in order to foretell the future.
- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy. About prayers to their gods, rhetoric, moral philosophy, and theology in the same context.
- The Sun, Moon and Stars, and the Binding of the Years. Deals with the sun, the moon, the stars, and the jubilee year.
- Kings and Lords. About kings and lords, and the way they held their elections and governed their reigns.
- The Merchants. About merchants, and officials for gold, precious stones and feathers.
- The People. About general history: it explains vices and virtues, spiritual as well as bodily, of all manner of persons.
- Earthly Things. About properties of animals, birds, fish, trees, herbs, flowers, metals, and stones, and about colors.
- The Conquest. About the conquest of New Spain, which is Mexico City.
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Famous quotes containing the word books:
“And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.”
—Bible: New Testament St. John the Divine, in Revelation, 20:12.
“The book borrower of real stature whom we envisage here proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures and by the deaf ear which he turns to all reminders from the everyday world of legality as by his failure to read these books.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
“An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)