Alien Monster IV (1978) (work 409) by HR Giger references page from the Codex Tudela (Origin 1530–1554 − Valley of Mexico)?

 

 

 

 leading from

HR Giger: Alien Monster IV

 

 

a) Alien Monster IV (1978) (work 409) by HR Giger

 

Alien (Winged) / Alien Monster IV by H.R.Giger
(Homage to Jean Delville?)

 

 

 

 

b) Image from the Codex Tudela (Origin 1530–1554 − Valley of Mexico)

 

 

 

 

 

 

c) Taking note of the Codex Tudela (Origin 1530–1554 − Valley of Mexico)

 

While I was waiting for another revelation in the world of Alien to come out of nowhere, one certain Mr Charles Cosimano posted in later October 2020 this image on his Facebook page as a jest about how everything went to hell since the abolition of human sacrifice

 

Then I looked at this codex image and then I suddenly thought that it reminded me of Giger's Alien Monster IV in terms of complexity.

 

I then realised how it connected with other pieces of art in the distant past, thought about how this illustration referenced the 7th century nativity icon from St Catherine's monastery, realised how the image had likely been referenced in The Librarian (1566) by Giuseppe Arcimboldo and so later was referenced in Jean Delville's Treasures of Satan (1895) and so somehow Giger ought to have found out about it in the way the seemed to have found out about a lot of the ingredients that mixed together in Alien Monster IV.

So this Codex Tudela I think was created deliberately with the idea of selling copies to European collectors .

 

 

The rest of the images from the page from Codex Tudela

 

 

d) The claws become various features in the details of the head and neck

 

 

 

e) The pectoral becomes the hand

 

 

f) The vertical band like form along the side of the pyramid becomes the vertical part this strange vertical limb