539:(copie from user:talk pages) You reverted my edit to Mesoamerican Calendars. This article is pretty bad and repeats information in the other articles about the Maya calendar, Long Count Calendar, etc. Also it repeats information in the same article. You comment that there's "no need to correct something that isn't wrong". If you want to use the phonetic spelling of "coatl" as "cohuatl" that's OK but it's not pronounced that way in the areas of Mexico where I've been and listened to Nahuatl, such as Cuetzalan, Puebla or in literature about the Mexicans, place names, etc. As for the addition of the zero date of the Mesomerican calendars in Julian, the Julian calendar was in use until 1582. It really is important to carefully state what calendar you are using when discussing the Mesoamerican calendar because astronomers, historians and in fact everyone except mayanists uses the historically accurate Julian calendar rather than the revisionist proleptic Gregorian calendar. This is important because the study of the maya calendar is an interdisiplinary one which for example includes astronomy. The use of the proleptic Gregorian calendar has caused a huge amount of confusion for people studying the Mesoamerican calendars and obviously continues to do so today. In addition the paragraph entitled "52 year cycle" is absolutely wrong in its assertion that the calendar round wasn't wasn't synchronized between all of the communities of Mesoamerica. Furthermore the calendar was never reset for political purposes. An example of this is that the Aztec calendar Tonalpohualli is consistent with the Tzolk'in which was 1 Chicchan on the date of the conquest of the Aztec empire. The year given for the conquest in the article is a year bearer (starting date of the Haab'). This is the only aspect of the mesoamerican calendar that is inconsistent. There were several year bearer systems in post-classic civilizations. This whole paragraph should be removed. The Long Count IS a modified base 20 system because there are only 18 Winals, not 20.
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bearer for the Haab year was Lamat (rabbit) for the Haab year starting on 11.14.6.4.8 - 3 rabbit - July 26, 1506. Notice though that the coefficient was 3 not 1. The next rabbit year bearer was 7 rabbit - 11.14.10.5.8 - July 25, 1510 . The next 1 rabbit year bearer was on 11.15.10.10.8 - July 20, 1530 and the previous one was on 11.12.17.15.8 - August 22, 1478. There were two 1 rabbit
Tzolkins in 1507: 11.14.6.13.8 1 rabbit - 1 Yax - January 22, 1507 and 11.14.7.8.8 1 rabbit 16 Zotz - October 9, 1507. I can't see any particular significance of why either of these would be the occasion of the new fire since they occur every 260 days. Also 2 reed occurs every 260 days. There was a 2 reed tzolkin in 1507: 11.14.7.0.13 2 Ben 6 Muan - May 7, 1507 but this is not a year bearer.
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god. In order to be a reliable source a publication has to be a primary or secondary source. Since Miller and Taube does not refer to either of these, it does not qualify as a reliable source." There is more in the article as well. The article in Miller and Taube about the
Mesoamerican calendars suffers from the same problems. In addition Miller and Taube give two dates in the Long Count and some western calendar (possibly the
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Carochis grammars all write it this way. How it is pronounced in Cuetzalan or any other modern day Nahua communities is beside the point since this is about a precolumbian phenomenon that is only known in classical Nahuatl. You have made other modifications to the article which are incorrect and unhelpful. You have removed a paragraph stating that
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Tlaltecuhtli as a female figure. They identify their main source for Aztec mythology as the Florentine codex however Book 1 of the codex, the Gods, does not include this
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Conquest that I've read the Aztecs expected Quetzalcoatl to return on a 1 reed year. 1519 was not a 1 reed year. Reed can be a year bearer in the Campeche system but the 1 Reed year bearers occurred on 11.13.11.0.13 - July 30, 1491 and 11.16.3.13.13 - July 17, 1543. It seems
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Calendar Round in concerned, all of the people in Mesoamerica used the same system. I believe that this was studied by Munro Edmonson. You say that the new fire ceremony was moved at least once, in 1507. Supposedly the new fire occurred every 52 years. There are
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This article mostly describes the Aztec calendar. The 260 day calendar was universal but the Mexica altered their 365 day calendar sometime during the post classic period so it doesn't coincide with the Mayan Haab'. This is a pretty bad article. For example the correlation section is really wrong.
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Tzolkin (Tonalpohualli) days that coincide with the starting day of the Haab (xiupohualli). In the Campeche system (the year bearer coincides with 1 Pop) rabbit could be a year bearer but there was no 1 rabbit year bearer in 1507. The year
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Alfonso Casos article in the Handbook of Middleamerican Indians, and is corroborated by any number of sources. If you believe that there was one single synchronized calendar in all of mesoamerica you are simply wrong. In the basin of Mexico alone different calendars were
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You are right about the importance of distinguishing the julian/gregorian calendars and that the long count was a modified base 20 calendar. However you are not correct that cohuatl is a "phonetic" spelling cohuatl (or cōhuatl) is the spelling used by experts in the classical language because it is
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The Tlapanec info is also given by Munro Edmonson, another Mesoamerican calendar scholar. He also notes the numeration in the system at Teotihuacan went from 2-14. Have added the cite, and also given the full citation reference to what (I presume) was intended for Caso 1971, as it seemed to be
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A calendar round completion occurs when the calendar round is the same as it was on the first day of this creation: 4 Ahau 8 Kumku. This occurred on 11.11.19.10.0 - July 19, 1460 and 11.14.12.5.0 - July 6, 1512. Neither of these seems like a good candidate for your revision of the
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Perhaps you can shed some light on just what the aztecs were using as the date for the new fire and the reliable source for this. It must be in some post conquest codex. If you can research this it would improve this and the Aztec calendar articles.
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was the 260-day ritual calendar that had no confirmed correlation to astronomical or agricultural cycles. These were used in combination with a separate 365-day calendar to create a 52-year cycle known as a
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I stand corrected on Andrews - I shoudln't quote him from memory anymore since I seem to be wrong everytime i do it.
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