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  2. Aztec calendar - Wikipedia

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    The actual Aztec calendar consists of a 365-day calendar cycle ... the end of the year and a cycle or "Tie of ... Time, History, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial ...

  3. New Fire ceremony - Wikipedia

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    The New Fire Ceremony (Spanish: Ceremonia del Fuego Nuevo) was an Aztec ceremony performed once every 52 years—a full cycle of the Aztec “calendar round”—in order to stave off the end of the world. The calendar round was the combination of the 260-day ritual calendar and the 365-day annual calendar.

  4. 2012 phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, later researchers said that, while the end of the 13th bʼakʼtun would perhaps be a cause for celebration, [10] it did not mark the end of the calendar. [33] "There is nothing in the Maya or Aztec or ancient Mesoamerican prophecy to suggest that they prophesied a sudden or major change of any sort in 2012," said Mayanist scholar ...

  5. Xiuhpōhualli - Wikipedia

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    Together, these calendars would coincide once every 52 years, the so-called "calendar round," which was initiated by a New Fire ceremony. Aztec years were named for the last day of the 18th month according to the 260-day calendar the tonalpōhualli. The first year of the Aztec calendar round was called 2 Acatl and the last 1 Tochtli.

  6. Mesoamerican chronology - Wikipedia

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    Aztec calendar (sunstone) Mesoamerican chronology divides the history of prehispanic Mesoamerica into several periods: the Paleo-Indian (first human habitation until 3500 BCE); the Archaic (before 2600 BCE), the Preclassic or Formative (2500 BCE – 250 CE), the Classic (250–900 CE), and the Postclassic (900–1521 CE); as well as the post European contact Colonial Period (1521–1821), and ...

  7. Mesoamerican Long Count calendar - Wikipedia

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    This time period may have been projected to end sometime between 7.3.0.0.0 (295 BCE) and 7.5.0.0.0 (256 BCE). [15] Besides being the earliest Maya hieroglyphic text so far uncovered, this would arguably be the earliest evidence to date of Long Count notation in Mesoamerica.

  8. Mayan Calendar 2012: How The End-Of-The-World Myth Can ... - AOL

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    Mayan civilization itself ended hundreds of years ago, but the calendar ticked. The Mayans were quite an advanced civilization. They had agriculture, written language and, as we've been learning ...

  9. Aztec New Year - Wikipedia

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    This 365-day calendar was corresponded with the solar year, was divided into 18 'months' of 20 days each, plus 5 'nameless' days at the end of the year. Also, there are some codices that show the existence of the leap year. [5] [6]