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    These calendars have been dated to early as ca. 1100 BCE. By 500 BCE at the latest, the essentials were fully defined and functional. 260-day calendars are...
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    Aztec calendar Maya astronomy Maya calendar Maya codices Mesoamerican calendars The correlation between the Long Count and Western calendars is calculated...
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  • subcontinent), Chinese calendars and Mesoamerican calendars. These are not specific calendars but series of historical calendars undergoing reforms or...
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    Mesoamerican calendars, sharing the basic structure of calendars from throughout the region. The Aztec sun stone, often erroneously called the calendar stone...
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    Mesoamerica (redirect from Mesoamerican)
    of the ritual Mesoamerican ballgame) Record keeping: use of two different calendars (a 260-day ritual calendar and a 365-day calendar based on the solar...
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  • Mesoamerican calendar used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.[citation needed] The tzolkʼin, the basic cycle of the Maya calendar...
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    associated with the four Yearbearers in Mesoamerican calendars, and the directional colors and deities. Mesoamerican codices which have this association outlined...
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    Mesoamerican chronology divides the history of prehispanic Mesoamerica into several periods: the Paleo-Indian (first human habitation until 3500 BCE);...
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    Lords of the Night (category Mesoamerican calendars)
    In Mesoamerican mythology the Lords of the Night (Classical Nahuatl: Yohualtecuhtin) are a set of nine deities who each ruled over every ninth night forming...
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    common with other Mesoamerican calendars, had its origins in the Preclassic period. However, it was the Maya that developed the calendar to its maximum sophistication...
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  • the basis of most Hindu calendars. Though there is little information about the social and cultural details of the solar calendars which were used in the...
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  • least the 5th century BC. It shares many aspects with calendars employed by other earlier Mesoamerican civilizations, such as the Zapotec and Olmec and contemporary...
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  • 365-day calendar. Some Mesoamerican calendars used a 365-day year with no leap year, resulting in a gradual shift of the seasons relative to the calendar. This...
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  • Xiuhpōhualli (category Mesoamerican calendars)
    xiuhpōhualli calendar (in history known as the "vague year" which means no leap day) had its antecedents in form and function in earlier Mesoamerican calendars, and...
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    Trecena (category Mesoamerican calendars)
    Spanish: trece) is a 13-day period used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican calendars. The 260-day Mayan calendar (the tonalpohualli) was divided into 20 trecenas....
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    is now kept at the Museo Capitolino in Rome (approximate date). Mesoamerican calendars are developed by the Olmec civilisation Anaxagoras, Pre-Socratic...
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    Hellenistic period they gave rise to the ancient Roman calendar and to various Hindu calendars. Calendars in antiquity were lunisolar, depending on the introduction...
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    Guipuscoan Basque. The Aztecs and Mayas used the Mesoamerican calendars. The most important of these calendars divided a ritual cycle of 260 days (known as...
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  • year and the lunation. Calendars are explicit schemes used for timekeeping. The first historically attested and formulized calendars date to the Bronze Age...
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  • – Full moon cycle – Galactic year – Great Year – Lunar phase – Mesoamerican calendars – Metonic cycle – Milankovitch cycles – Mira – Moon – Nutation –...
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    with the four Year Bearers in Mesoamerican calendars and associated with the directional colors and deities. Mesoamerican codices which have this association...
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    principally characteristic of pre-Columbian Aztec civilization, although other Mesoamerican civilizations like the Maya and the Zapotec practiced it as well. The...
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  • these calendars are the Alexandrian calendar and the Ancient Macedonian calendar─which had two forms: the Syro-Macedonian and the 'Asian' calendars. Other...
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    place in Mesoamerican folklore and myth since at least the Classic Period right through to modern times. A common belief across the Mesoamerican region...
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  • the world where writing is thought to have developed independently. Mesoamerican scripts deciphered to date are a combination of logographic and syllabic...
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  • calendars consists of 365 days, with a leap day being added to February in the leap years. The months and length of months in the Gregorian calendar are...
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    (2013). The Ritual Practice of Time: Philosophy and Sociopolitics of Mesoamerican Calendars. Brill. pp. 282–84. ISBN 9789004252363. Yotzin, Akaxe (5 March 2013)...
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  • Gregorian calendar. The Assamese Calendar incorporates the seven-day week as used by many other calendars. Manipuri calendar Tripuri calendar "Dictionary"...
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    Mesoamerican architecture is the set of architectural traditions produced by pre-Columbian cultures and civilizations of Mesoamerica, traditions which...
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    traditions of indigenous Mesoamerican literature extend back to the oldest-attested forms of early writing in the Mesoamerican region, which date from...
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