Time
The Aztecs kept large libraries of books or codices (codex in the singular) that is where they recorded information about their society. An Aztecs codex has only pictures, as they did not use an alphabet.The Aztec calendar emphasized the close connection between gods and human beings, between the sacred and physical landscapes. The Aztecs had two calendars: a solar calendar and a sacred calendar. The sacred calendar was 260 days long. It took the sacred calendar exactly 52 years to “catch up” with the solar calendar.
The great stone calendar, which was carved in the mid-1400s was dedicated to Huitzilopochtli. It shows how the world began and how it will end. Tonatiuh, the god of the fifth sun in the centre of the calendar, has his tongue sticking out. It showed the Aztecs that he wanted to be fed blood.The Aztecs believed that there were four eras before the present one and each had been destroyed. According to the legends, jaguars destroyed the first, the second by hurricanes, the third by fiery rain, and the fourth by a flood.
FYI
The Aztecs, Mayan, and other Central
American societies developed the most
accurate and complicated calendars in
the ancient world. The calendars were
based on extremely accurate astronomical
observations and mathematical calculations
The Aztecs, Mayan, and other Central
American societies developed the most
accurate and complicated calendars in
the ancient world. The calendars were
based on extremely accurate astronomical
observations and mathematical calculations