Abstract

MARQUEZ LORENZO, Emmanuel. El análisis del monumento 4 de Castillo de Teayo y la correlación de calendarios: Xiuhpohualli, Tonalpohualli, Toxiuh molpilia y Romano. Cuicuilco [online]. 2012, vol.19, n.53, pp.97-135. ISSN 0185-1659.

This work is a proposal of analysis of the Castillo de Teayo's monument 4, at which from a brief study around of its hypothetical past, since some researchers refer to it with the name of Tetzapotitlan. It's been choose the study of this sculpture because the importance contained in their glyphs; this monument is one of the rare cases in the Huaxteca which presents calendarical glyphs. This study is fruitful because the style of the piece is typically mexica, and the territorial occupation of this society at the zone is referred in several sources such as pictographical and written evidences; in consequence, the interpretation exposed is more precise. Through the applied methodology, developed from the theoretician position of the historical materialism, is been possible understands and explains the specific content of the piece, and its symbolical outstanding for the society that manufacture it. Besides, this study allow deeper, at the future, in some additional aspects of this past society.

Keywords : iconographical analysis; Tetzapotitlan; bellicose actions; mexica's colonization.

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