Here there are two lists of links used by the authors of Sister Stories, in case the reader would want to extend his knowledge.

 

Below are some useful links if you are interested in researching the Aztecs online. You may also be interested in the Sources section here in Sister Stories.

 

Aztec History and Culture
http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~spencer/aztec.htm

Aztec Calendar: Math and Design
http://www.earthmatrix.com/serie02/cuad02-1.htm

Aztlan E-Journal
http://www.ukans.edu/~hoopes/aztlan/

Borgia Group codices
http://pages.prodigy.net/gbonline/awborgia.html

Goddesses of the Borgia Group
by Mexican scholar, María de los Angeles Ojeda Díaz
http://www.arts-history.mx/diosas/home2.html

Mexico History
http://northcoast.com/~spdtom/index.html
An amazingly rich resource for Mexican history. The Aztec section alone is a wealth of references, links, and especially graphics, both ancient and modern, plus much helpful interpretation.

Nahuatl Home Page --University of Montana
http://www.umt.edu/history/NAHUATL/

Nahuatl vocabulary -- University of Montana
http://www.umt.edu/history/NAHUATL/florent.txt

Templo Mayor Museum
http://archaeology.la.asu.edu/tm/index2.htm

Other interesting sites:

Vectorial Elevation Project
Zocalo Square México City
http://www.alzado.net

An interactive installation created for the Zocalo Square in Mexico City to mark the end of the millennium. Anyone can participate by visiting the website of the piece and designing domes of light over the Historical Center using18 searchlights located on buildings around the square. These searchlights, which can be seen for 25 kilometers all around, are controlled by virtual reality and can be seen online through three digital cameras located on the Torre Latinoamericana, the Gran Hotel and the Presidential Palace of the National Palace.

Aztec Calendar giving Aztec interpretation of the current date
http://www.azteccalendar.com/

"Coyolxauhqui: An Ancient Myth, Chicanas Today" - a collaborative multimedia thesis project - no examples of the work, but a complete explanation of the concept
http://www.transbay.net/~elba/coyol.html

Encyclopedia Mythica, including many of the Aztec characters in Sister Stories.
http://www.pantheon.org/mythica

A
12-volume facsimile of the Florentine Codex is available from Amazon for $450
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D087480082X/gbonlinesmesoameA/002-3200307-4810002

 

 

On the other hand, they have included several links wherefrom they have extracted the images used in Sister Stories.

 

 

Sources for images used in Sister Stories


Aztec drawings
From the Florentine Codex, after Francisco del Paso y Troncoso, 1905: Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, por Fray Bernardino de Sahagún. Tomo V. Madrid


Aztec calendar stone
In the national collection of Mexico, and housed at the
Museo Nacional de Antropología, México, Mexico City.


Coyolxauhqui stone
Housed at the
Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City.


Drawing of Aztec fire-butterfly, or soul,
used in the
Song Section in Sister Stories
FREDERIKSEN, Thomas H.,
Student Teacher Resource Center
On-Line Student Resource Center: Humboldt Co. Ca.: spring, 2000
http://northcoast.com/~spdtom/index.html


Drawing of diviner and woman and child, used on the
"scribe" page in Sister Stories.
Codex Xolotl, in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, Ms. mex. Nos. 1-10
published in: Boban, Eugéne, Documents pour servir á l'histoire du Mexique, vol. I:55-208, plates i-10; 1891, Paris; Plate 6.

 

 

 


 

 

 

INTRODUCTION      HYPERTEXT      STRUCTURE      TOOLS      CONCLUSION

 

 

 

 

 

Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Mar Andreu González
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Universitat de València Press