Codex Telleriano-Remensis Celestial Signs

Record summary

The Codex Telleriano-Remensis combines Indigenous pictorial conventions with alphabetic glosses and includes calendrical, astronomical and augural material. Researchers may use it to compare representations of comets, eclipses and other sky signs with later claims that pre-Columbian images depict spacecraft or aerial encounters. Its value lies in documenting how celestial phenomena were classified within Nahua knowledge systems, not in proving modern UAP activity. Interpretation is difficult because the manuscript is post-Conquest, damaged, multilingual and dependent on conventions that cannot be read as straightforward realistic illustration.