Codex Cospi

The back side pictorially describes rituals that involve counted bundles in front of deities.

The rituals are intended for obtaining good luck and protection in several activities.

[1] Eduard Seler remarked,[2] the depictions in the Codex Cospi resemble those in "comic books" : this may characterize the political situation (regarded as farcical and comical) wherein Tlaxcallan, although completely encircled by the Aztec empire, was deliberately not incorporated into it in order to exemplify the magnanimity of the Aztec rulers.

The Codex Cospi has many close specific resemblances in content to Codex Borgia, most notably both codices' beginning with a sequence of 104 scenes (Cospi, pp.

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