John Pohl, THE CODICES John Pohl's
MESOAMERICA

ANCIENT BOOKS: Borgia Group Codices

Royal Marriages

Image - A favorable marriage prognostication shows a royal couple ornamented with flowers offering salutations to one another beneath a shining sun.
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We know that the Mixtecs and Zapotecs planned marriages according to the alliance patterns detailed in their divine genealogical histories and the Spanish historian Herrera said that auspicious days for arranging marriages were calculated by casting lots. The Tolteca-Chichimeca on the other hand calculated marriages according to prophecies depicted in Codex Borgia. Pages 57-60 outline the prophecies for favorable and unfavorable marriages according to the numerical coefficients of the couple’s names leaving the fate of the marriage to numerology and the will of the gods.

Image - A bad marriage prognostication illustrates a male adulterer caught in the act by an angry wife who grasps him by the hair beneath a clouded sun.
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