What subject is NOT represented in the 15th-century Borgia Codex, the largest and most elaborate of the manuscripts known as the Borgia Group?

A codex page painted on deerskin bears the images of two gods sitting back to back above an upside-down skull. The gods are rendered as multitudes of individual geometric shapes in reds and yellows outlined in black. Both gods hold scepters. This central image is bordered by a column of pictograms set off by frames on the left and right sides, with a row of red circles at the top and bottom.      
a. The conflict between the god of life and the god of death
b. The Mesoamerican ritual calendar
c. The symbol of the Underworld (Mictlan)
d. The arrival of the Spanish conquistadors          

Ans: d. The arrival of the Spanish conquistadors

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