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Item: Calendars -> Category: Several -> Author: DF -> Revision: 20/07/2008
Aztec calendar

 

History

 

This calendar was invented by the Mexican people of the Olmec more than 35 centuries agoHe was subsequently inherited by the ancient cultures of Mexico also called Mesoamerica.

 

The year 1479 was built on schedule del Sol which is the Aztec calendar of the oldest pre-Hispanic culture to be preserved. It comprises four concentric circles and the central part is a representation of the god of the sun.

 

With the arrival of the Spaniards to Tenochitlan was buriedIt was recovered in 1790 and is currently exhibited at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico.


Contents of the document

1.-Introduction
-> History of the Aztec calendar
3.- Calendar Xihuitl
4.- Name the months of the calendar Xihuitl
5.- Calendar Tonalpohualli
6.- Months calendar Tonalpohualli



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