CHAPTER XVI

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THE AZTEC CALENDAR.

Astronomical Knowledge of the Aztecs -- Contradictions of Authors respecting the Calendar -- Value of the Researches of Various Writers -- The First Regular Calendar -- The Mexican Cycle -- The Civil Year -- The Aztec Months -- Names of the Days and their Signification -- The Commencement of the Aztec Year -- The Ritual Calendar -- Gama's Arrangement of the Months -- The Calendar-Stone -- The Four Destructions of the World -- The Calendar of Michoacan -- Reckoning of the Zapotecs 502

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