Calendars of Ancient Mexico: The Complete Playlist

Описание: Edgar presents the full 9-episode playlist on the native Mesoamerican calendars, from ancient to modern observance! He explains the origins and uses of the calendar systems among the Aztec, Maya, Mixtec, and other major civilizations from the area.
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0:00 Welcome and Introduction
1:11 General Remarks
3:21 The First Calendars
10:26 The Maya Calendars
20:50 The Aztec Calendars
29:34 The Codices
37:58 The Aztec Calendar Stone
41:46 Calendar Rituals
48:57 Today's Mask: Stele of San Miguel Chapultepec

Parts on the Epi-Olmec texts are inspired by research by John Justeson and Terrence Kaufman. A more detailed study of theirs is available here:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Dresden Codex image adapted from World Digital Library facsimile:
https://dl.wdl.org/11621/service/1162...

Additional information on Maya calendar glyphs by David L. Mills and David Stuart:
https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/may...
https://www.mesoweb.com/stuart/notes/...

Lopez-Austin, Alfredo. 1988 The Human Body and Ideology: Concepts of the Ancient Nahuas. Salt Lake City: University of Utah.
Edwin Barnhart's commentary on the calendar in the Dresden Codex:
https://www.mayaexploration.org/pdf/D...

John Pohl's history on the Mixtec through their codices:
http://www.famsi.org/research/pohl/jp...

Codex Nuttall image from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Elizabeth Rachel Bell's doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University:
"Sacred Inheritance: Cultural Resistance and Contemporary Kaqchikel-Maya Spiritual Practices"
https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_fi...

Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo, "'Tonalism': Name, Soul, Destiny and Identity Determined by the 260-day Calendar in Mesoamerica"
https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/...