Representation and sense of the sun in the amerindian world

Abstract

On the following pages I present what any researcher can conclude when reading primary sources (indigenous codices and the Spanish chroniclers’ writings) regarding the Amerindian world: the presence of the solar star is the central element in all the Aztec, Maya and Muisca myths.

Keywords

• Mitología
• símbolo
• cosmogonía
• pensamiento amerindio
• civilizaciones precolombinas
• códices
• crónicas.