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right A Aztec calendar was a calendar of the Aztec people of Pre-Columbian Mexico. These are one of a Mesoamerican calendars, sharing the basic structure of calendars from either throughout ancient Mesoamerica.

the calendar consisted of the 365 day calendar period & a 260 day ritual period. These deuce rounds together formed the 52 season "century", another time known as a "Calendar Round".

365 day calendar

260 day cycle
A solar calendar of 365 times was inseparable from either a Sacred Spherical, or even Sacred Almanac. A priests utilized this ritual calendar of 260 years known as Tonalpohualli primarily for divinatory purposes.

A method of naming a personal times consisted in a combination of twenty pictural signs by using the totals 1 to thirteen.

Every of a day signs too association by owning one of the quadruplet primal directions.

A Twenty day signs come: These day signs would become combined by using totals, e.g.: I Cipactli, Deuce Eecatl, Terniin Calli, so on to Thirteen Acatle, which was followed by Ace Ocelotl, Ii Quauhtli, etc. There existence there is no common measure to a counts Thirteen & Twenty, the period of 13 ten 20 years, or even 260, would elapse prior to the sign Single Cipactli would recur. This period of 260 years constituted a divinatory or even ritual calendar, known as tonalpohualli. A tonalpohualli was subdivided witharound various ways; in a few manuscripts (referred to as 'tonalamatl' or 'book of times') both of the twenty 13-day periods, or even weeks, is shown on an individual basis, together by owning a figure of a god world health organization was especially associated by owning a foremost day, however whose influence was supposed to extend on top the altogether "week". Inside the few manuscripts a tonalpohualli is intended inside a different technique: in 5 hanker horizontal rows of 52 years every. Both row, & apiece vertical column of 5 times, is provided by having a presiding divinity symbol, the influence of which must become assessed.

Aztec Calendar
Gregorian-to-Aztec date conversion, with Aztec astrological notes.

The Aztec Calendar - Pointer/Homepage
Site breaks down all aspects of the Aztec calendric system

Historical Science Publishing - Aztec Calendar Handbook
A "technical manual" for the Aztec Calendar and Aztec's perception of God by Dr. Randall C. Jimenez and Richard Graeber.

Early Aztec Understandings
A sixteenth-century account of the religion and history of the Colhua Mexica, or Aztecs.


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