Notes On the Calendar And the Almanac
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The Mexican intercala- tion of thirteen days at the end of fifty-two years made again the first year of every cycle correspond with our year.
The question naturally arises, how the Toltecs became so far advanced in civilization as to be able somewhere between the seventh and the twelfth century of the Christian Era to formulate a calendar which the Span- ish conquerors in 1521 found to be as accurate as their 43 own, and how the Aztecs were able to solve such prob- lems in engineering as the tr...ansporting of a huge stone block, many tons in weight, over miles of marshland and river, and the elevating and placing it on a platform 120 feet in height.
In ''Clavis Calendaria" John Brady says, ''Those immense square pillars or obelisks in Egypt, the hier- oglyphical characters upon which have so much per- plexed the learned, have been considered as containing directions for the monthly rural labours of the Egyp- tians and consequently to have been the first species of almanac ever issued ; and when the repetition of the same figures or characters on each of those vast pillars is considered, the titles assigned to them by the Egyptian priests ''fingers of the sun, " to which orb they were usually dedicated; and the nature of the stone of which they were composed, being of various colours, and re- garded as typical of the four elements; there is good reason for concluding that they were intended as alman- acs rather than histories of sovereigns, or for any other uses that have been assigned them by the ingenuity of antiquaries.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The Mexican intercala- tion of thirteen days at the end of fifty-two years made again the first year of every cycle correspond with our year.
The question naturally arises, how the Toltecs became so far advanced in civilization as to be able somewhere between the seventh and the twelfth century of the Christian Era to formulate a calendar which the Span- ish conquerors in 1521 found to be as accurate as their 43 own, and how the Aztecs were able to solve such prob- lems in engineering as the tr...ansporting of a huge stone block, many tons in weight, over miles of marshland and river, and the elevating and placing it on a platform 120 feet in height.
In ''Clavis Calendaria" John Brady says, ''Those immense square pillars or obelisks in Egypt, the hier- oglyphical characters upon which have so much per- plexed the learned, have been considered as containing directions for the monthly rural labours of the Egyp- tians and consequently to have been the first species of almanac ever issued ; and when the repetition of the same figures or characters on each of those vast pillars is considered, the titles assigned to them by the Egyptian priests ''fingers of the sun, " to which orb they were usually dedicated; and the nature of the stone of which they were composed, being of various colours, and re- garded as typical of the four elements; there is good reason for concluding that they were intended as alman- acs rather than histories of sovereigns, or for any other uses that have been assigned them by the ingenuity of antiquaries.
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