The empire of the Mexican (or Aztecs whilst the Spanish called them) fell to Hernan Cortez and his conquistadors in 1521. Just a couple of, brief years afterward the Aztec temples were obliterated and invaluable records such as friar Bernardino de Sahagun's codices, (a twelve volume encyclopedia of Aztec life and culture) secreted and gathering dirt.
It was in 1790, when common interest in Mexico's pre-Hispanic past was awakened due to an astonishing artifact that was uncovered during the renovation of "El Zocalo," Mexico city's central plaza. It was a huge disk of carved basalt, three feet thick and 12 feet in diameter, weighing some 24 metric tons. The Mexican Aztec free calendar is known as a veritable monument to Mexican art and science. The monolith remained at the Zocalo, for viewing in the foundation of the Metropolitan Cathedral. About 100 years later it was transferred to Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology, where it still stands as the Museum's centerpiece. This intricately carved hieroglyphs was labeled the Mexican Aztec free calendar Stone. In current thought, the Stone of the Fifth Sun is called a more apt moniker. Scholars have long debated the rock's meaning and function and remain puzzled over its mysteries. Today most concur that it includes a graphic description of the Mexica cosmos.
The outer rim of the stone shows two fire serpents meeting fave to manage at the lower extreme. Their tails are joined at the top with the symbol for the ritual date 13-Reed, considered to represent the creation possibly corresponding to 1011A.D. The middle of the stone reveals the sun god Tonatuih. His tongue in the shape of a sacrificial flint knife, protrudes from between his bared teeth, while in each claw-like hand, he grasps a humane heart. The god is surrounded by four glyphs symbolizing the cataclysms that ended each one of the prior solar eras. Depending on Mexican belief, earth's earliest inhabitants were devoured by jaguars. The death of the next sun brought destruction by great winds. The next era ended with fiery rain, as the fourth sun was extinguished by enormous floods.
These symbols, with the picture of Tonatuih, are neatly contained in the abstract motif for movement called ollin. It's surmised that the Mexican Aztec free calendar shows the predicted date of destruction for 'El Quinto Sol' during a 4-Ollin cycle. The Mexicas tried to maintain their age, forestalling calamity by sating the gods with myriad rituals and sacrifices, including a constant diet of human blood.
The formula by which the two free calendars were combined meant that no body date will be repeated for some time of 18,980 days. Consequently, the the last day of a solar cycle and the last day of the sacred cycle coincided only once every 52 years. It was with this auspicious time that 'El Quinto Sol' was regarded in greatest danger of extinction. An effective New Fire ceremony would insure the reappearance of the orb and continuing survival of human culture.
It was in 1790, when common interest in Mexico's pre-Hispanic past was awakened due to an astonishing artifact that was uncovered during the renovation of "El Zocalo," Mexico city's central plaza. It was a huge disk of carved basalt, three feet thick and 12 feet in diameter, weighing some 24 metric tons. The Mexican Aztec free calendar is known as a veritable monument to Mexican art and science. The monolith remained at the Zocalo, for viewing in the foundation of the Metropolitan Cathedral. About 100 years later it was transferred to Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology, where it still stands as the Museum's centerpiece. This intricately carved hieroglyphs was labeled the Mexican Aztec free calendar Stone. In current thought, the Stone of the Fifth Sun is called a more apt moniker. Scholars have long debated the rock's meaning and function and remain puzzled over its mysteries. Today most concur that it includes a graphic description of the Mexica cosmos.
The outer rim of the stone shows two fire serpents meeting fave to manage at the lower extreme. Their tails are joined at the top with the symbol for the ritual date 13-Reed, considered to represent the creation possibly corresponding to 1011A.D. The middle of the stone reveals the sun god Tonatuih. His tongue in the shape of a sacrificial flint knife, protrudes from between his bared teeth, while in each claw-like hand, he grasps a humane heart. The god is surrounded by four glyphs symbolizing the cataclysms that ended each one of the prior solar eras. Depending on Mexican belief, earth's earliest inhabitants were devoured by jaguars. The death of the next sun brought destruction by great winds. The next era ended with fiery rain, as the fourth sun was extinguished by enormous floods.
These symbols, with the picture of Tonatuih, are neatly contained in the abstract motif for movement called ollin. It's surmised that the Mexican Aztec free calendar shows the predicted date of destruction for 'El Quinto Sol' during a 4-Ollin cycle. The Mexicas tried to maintain their age, forestalling calamity by sating the gods with myriad rituals and sacrifices, including a constant diet of human blood.
The formula by which the two free calendars were combined meant that no body date will be repeated for some time of 18,980 days. Consequently, the the last day of a solar cycle and the last day of the sacred cycle coincided only once every 52 years. It was with this auspicious time that 'El Quinto Sol' was regarded in greatest danger of extinction. An effective New Fire ceremony would insure the reappearance of the orb and continuing survival of human culture.
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