Análisis iconográfico de las representaciones del dios de la muerte en el Códice Borgia

Abstract

Death allows to know a cultural aspect that can be studied in different social spheres. In Mexica society was no exception leaving a legacy with representations of the deity dedicated to the dead. Analyzing way of iconographic representations of Mictlantecuhtli in the Codex Borgia could know how death was conceived by the Aztecs.