The 1509 comet in Mesoamerican annals and pictorial manuscripts

Record summary

Several central Mexican calendrical and annalistic traditions associate the year 1509 with an unusual celestial sign, commonly identified by modern scholars as a comet. The Codex Telleriano-Remensis and related manuscripts are relevant because they preserve Indigenous and colonial-era efforts to correlate sky phenomena with political or ritual history. This is useful for comparing how an apparent aerial or celestial anomaly becomes an omen through transmission. The exact identification, dating, and relationship among manuscript traditions require specialist checking, and the material is not a modern encounter report.