Codex Vaticanus A Celestial and Omen Imagery

Record summary

Codex Vaticanus A, commonly called the Codex Ríos, contains painted and alphabetic material concerning Central Mexican cosmology, calendrics and signs. It is a useful comparative lead because some reproduced celestial motifs have been recruited into ancient-astronaut arguments, while historians generally treat them as conventional religious or calendrical imagery. The manuscript also illustrates how Indigenous traditions were reorganized by colonial authors and scribes. Identifying individual panels requires consulting facsimiles and specialist catalogues rather than relying on isolated internet images or modern UFO captions.