In this article I argue that the graphic images of the gods in the divinatory codices are composed of signs of different semantic values which encode particular properties. All of them contribute to creating the identity of the god. However, these graphic elements are not only shared by different deities, but even differ between representations of the same god. Analyzing the graphic images of Xipe Totec, one of the best-studied deities and one of the oldest in Mesoamerica, I elaborate a hypothesis that the images of the gods in the divinatory codices were perceived by their authors as a mosaic of different properties, which at the same time were dynamic. Consequently, there was not even one “prototypical” representation of a single god, since possibly the identity of a god was defined precisely when composing his/her image with particular graphic signs, thus crystallizing some of his/her multiple properties, important at this precise moment.

在这篇文章中，我论证了占卜抄本中神的图形图像是由不同语义值的符号组成的，这些符号编码了特定的属性。所有这些都有助于创造神的身份。然而，这些图形元素不仅为不同的神灵所共有，甚至在同一神灵的表现形式之间也有所不同。通过分析 Xipe Totec（研究最深入的神灵之一，也是中美洲最古老的神灵之一）的图形图像，我阐述了一个假设，即占卜抄本中的神灵图像被其作者视为不同属性的马赛克，这同时是动态的。因此，甚至没有一个神的“原型”代表，