Abstract

SCANDAR, Florencia. The am can mo ik tamcas winds disease from an iconotextual perspective. Mayan medicine and medieval images in the Chilam Balam of Kaua. Estud. cult. maya [online]. 2023, vol.62, pp.223-249.  Epub Jan 30, 2024. ISSN 0185-2574.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm/62/000xs00146w07.

In this article the contents of page 3 of the Chilam Balam of Kaua and its parallel passages are approached in a comprehensive manner with the objective of reaching a better understanding of the disease discussed here, the am can mo ik tamcas. The text is studied, proposing a new translation, and the different interpretations that can be made of it are discussed. Its image is analyzed and a visual link with the image of the bird and the serpent of the medieval Beatus is proposed. Finally, the text-image relationship and the information it provides us with are discussed.

Keywords : Chilam Balam; iconotextuality; Beatus; colonial Yucatan; mayan medicine.