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  2. Aztec sun stone - Wikipedia

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    The Aztec sun stone (Spanish: Piedra del Sol) is a late post-classic Mexica sculpture housed in the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, and is perhaps the most famous work of Mexica sculpture. [1] It measures 3.6 metres (12 ft) in diameter and 98 centimetres (39 in) thick, and weighs 24,590 kg (54,210 lb). [2]

  3. Five Suns - Wikipedia

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    The Aztec sun stone.. In creation myths, the term "Five Suns" refers to the belief of certain Nahua cultures and Aztec peoples that the world has gone through five distinct cycles of creation and destruction, with the current era being the fifth.

  4. File:Monolito de la Piedra del Sol.jpg - Wikipedia

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  5. File:Aztec calendar.svg - Wikipedia

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    English: The Aztec sun calendar is a circular stone with pictures representing how the Aztecs measured days, months, and cosmic cycles. Español: El calendario solar Azteca es una piedra circular con figuras que representan cómo los Aztecas representaban los días, meses y ciclos cósmicos.

  6. Aztec calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Aztec sun stone, often erroneously called the calendar stone, is on display at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. The actual Aztec calendar consists of a 365-day calendar cycle called xiuhpōhualli (year count), and a 260-day ritual cycle called tōnalpōhualli (day count). These two cycles together form a 52-year "century ...

  7. File:Sunstone Annotations.pdf - Wikipedia

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  8. Tōxcatl - Wikipedia

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    The Aztec "Sun stone" presenting elements of the Aztec calendar. Toxcatl (Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈtoːʃkat͡ɬ]) was the name of the fifth twenty-day month or "veintena" of the Aztec calendar which lasted approximately from the 5th to the 22nd May, and of the festival which was held every year in this month. [1]

  9. Antonio de León y Gama - Wikipedia

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    This book was published in 1792. In it León y Gama described the discovery in 1790 of two of the most important pieces of Aztec art in the Zócalo, main plaza of the city of Mexico: the sun stone and a statue of Coatlicue, an Aztec goddess. León y Gama also included in it most of his knowledge and theories on how the Aztecs measured time.