Codex Chimalpopoca and the Leyenda de los Soles
- Date of account
- Nineteenth-century scholarly circulation; colonial Nahuatl and Spanish materials
- Location
- Central Mexico
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Codex Chimalpopoca is a colonial compilation associated with Nahuatl historical and religious materials, including the Leyenda de los Soles and the annals attributed to Cuauhtitlan. Nineteenth-century Mexican and European scholarship helped circulate these accounts of successive worlds, creation, destruction and divine beings. The lead is valuable for comparing apocalyptic structures and claims of ancient knowledge without treating the narrative as a modern supernatural report. Attribution, manuscript history, transcription and translation remain contested, and the codex should be studied as a layered colonial record.
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